Mariana Pinho Candido

Mariana P. Candido specializes in the history of West Central Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Her interests include the history of slavery; forced migration and labor; the South Atlantic world; and the African diaspora. She is the vice-chair of the Lusophone African Studies Organization and a network professor of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. She is also co-investigator in the projects The Angolan Roots of Capoeira, University of Essex/UK, and the "Escravidão e Formas de Sociabilidade: Escravos africanos em Mariana/MG, 1700-1750, Universidade Federal Fluminense/Brazil.Candido's publications include Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780-1850(Mexico: Colegio de Mexico Press, 2011); Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araújo and Paul Lovejoy (Africa World Press, 2011); and articles in Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, Portuguese Studies Review, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire, and Brésil (s). Sciences Humaines et Sociales.

Possui graduação em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1997), mestrado em Estudos Africanos, Colegio de México, no México (2000) e doutorado em História da África na York University, no Canadá (2006). É professora no departamento de história da Princeton University, nos Estados Unidos e pesquisadora associada ao Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Slavery, Memory and Citizenship; e ao Projeto Acervo Digital Angola- Brasil. É também co-investigadora nos projetos "Escravidão e Formas de Sociabilidade: Escravos africanos em Mariana/MG, 1700-1750, e The Angolan Roots of Capoeira, financiado pela University of Essex, na Inglaterra.