Mariana Dantas
Education
- Ph.D. in History from The Johns Hopkins University
Research
- Early Modern Atlantic World
- History of Slavery and the African Diaspora
- Family History and Urban History
Mariana Dantas is Associate Professor in the History Department. She is a specialist in the history of slavery and African diasporic peoples in the Atlantic World.
Her first book, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (Palgrave 2008), provides a comparative analysis of enslaved and free Africans and their descendants as urbanizing agents in the Americas. Her research has also been published as chapters in various edited volumes, and as articles in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Journal of Family History, and The Americas, among others. She has co-edited special journal sections in Urban History, Almanack, 贰蝉产辞莽辞蝉, and the Journal of Urban History. She was a visiting scholar at the Centro de Estudos Mineiros of the Universidade de Minas Gerais (2011, 2013) and at the Centre de Recherches sur le Br猫sil Colonial et Contemporain at the 脡cole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (2021), and a fellow at the National Humanties Center (2016-17). Her current book project examines the social meaning of racial categories to three generations of members of families of mixed African and European descent in a colonial Brazilian mining town.
Mariana Dantas is a founding member and serves on the board of directors of the , a professional association that promotes research collaboration and scholarly activities in the emerging field of global urban history. The Global Urban History Project is an outgrowth of the Global City: Past and Present International Research Network she and her colleague Emma Hart, of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, led between 2014 and 2017 with financial support from the United Kingdom鈥檚 Arts and Humanities Research Council and 51社区's 1804 grant.
Teaching
Mariana Dantas's main teaching interests are colonial Latin America, the history of slavery, and race formation and race relations in the African Diaspora. Her courses include::
- HIST 1330: Introduction to World History since 1750 HIST 3230: Latin American History: The Colonial Era HIST 3232: History of Brazil HIST 3270: Slavery in the Americas HIST 6902: Graduate Colloquium in Latin American History
Dr. Mariana Dantas also has advised graduate and undergraduate theses in the fields of the history of slavery and colonial Latin America.
Recent Publications
. Elements in Global Urban History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. [Co-author Emma Hart]
Journal of Urban History 50, no. 3 (2024). [Co-author Carl Nightingale]
叠谤茅蝉颈濒(蝉) [En ligne], 20 | 2021.
Urban History 48, no. 3 (2021): 424-34. [Co-author Emma Hart]
Dantas, Mariana L. R. In As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas, edited by Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, 190-206. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
鈥.鈥 (Co-authored with Douglas C. Libby) International Review of Social History 65, no. S28 (2020): 117鈥44. doi:10.1017/S0020859020000152.
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"," African Economic History 43 (2015): 82-108.
"," Almanack 12 (Jan./Apr. 2016): 88-104.
"," The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 73:4 (October 2016): 405-426.