Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado

Specialist in the social history of slavery, abolition and post-emancipation, Machado has extensive experience in archival research in Brazil and the USA, with emphasis on crime and slave resistance, abolitionist movements, scientific journeys and debates on race. She holds a bachelor's degree in History (1979,) and a master's degree (1985) and a PhD (1991) in Social History, all from the University of São Paulo. Machado is currently a Full Professor at USP's Department of History, where she has been teaching since 1996. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. Among her publications there are: Brazil Through the Eyes of William James, 1865-1866. Cambridge: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies / Harvard University Press, 2006 (book,) From Slave Rebels to Strikebreakers: The Quilombo of Jabaquara and the Problem of Citizenship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil, in Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 86: 2, 2006 (article,) and Travels and Science in Brazil: Charles Darwin, Louis Agassiz and William James, in Harvard Review of Latin America: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cambridge (USA,) Spring, 2009 (article.) Machado is currently developing projects on the Thayer Expedition (1865-66) and biographies of slaves and freedmen.