In this episode, we discuss the history of Black activism in Brazil during the authoritarian period (1964–1986). Joining me is Marcelo Jose Domingos.

Marcelo graduated with his Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Texas at Austin. He focused on contemporary history, the Cold War, the 1980s, and the complexities of twenty-first-century geopolitics in Latin America. His research interests also include examining the intersections of race, culture, and politics, particularly as they relate to black activism and the Brazilian dictatorship's intelligence files. Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Marcelo worked for several years in archives management, research, history, and education. He has taught various subjects from high school to college, including international relations, global history, and Brazilian history. Additionally, Marcelo holds an MA in Cultural History from the University of Brasília (UNB) in Brazil, where he deepened his knowledge of popular music and media interactions. Regarding his academic research, Marcelo’s work on Black activism in Brazil during the authoritarian period is particularly critical, as there are very few investigations on this subject, and moreover, his research is unique in that it draws extensively upon declassified government files.

In this episode, we discuss the pre-contact Indigenous history of North America. In this episode, we examine how this deep history relates to the contact period, all while situating this discussion within a broad framework of Atlantic World history. Joining me is Isra Henson. Isra is a first-year M.A. student studying under the supervision of Professor Nancy E. van Deusen. She completed her BAH in History at Queen’s University and decided to continue her studies there. She focuses on North and South American Indigenous history, specifically contact and early colonization.

In this episode, Arianna Ray joins me in conversation about the history of representations of Africans in early modern prints within the Dutch Atlantic. Arianna is a PhD candidate in art history at Northwestern University and a current Fulbright Fellow based in the Netherlands. She specializes in early modern Northern European prints in a global context with a particular interest in materiality. Her dissertation, “Paper Skin: Printing Blackness and Materializing Race in the Early Modern Dutch Atlantic,” investigates how the color binary inherent to printmaking epidermalized race in engravings, etchings, and mezzotints of African Diasporic peoples.

This episode aims to examine The Akantamanso War of 1826 in Ghana in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is  Ishmael Annang. He is a teacher and a historian of society and environment in Africa and the African Atlantic in the Department of History at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He received both his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and graduate Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degrees in History from the University of Ghana, Legon. He has broad research and teaching interests in Africa, Atlantic Africa, the African Atlantic/Diaspora, oral methodology, Ghana/West Africa, health and healing in Africa, African slavery, and environmental history, particularly how Africa’s environmental setting shaped Atlantic interactions in Africa and its diaspora. He is currently wrapping up his dissertation project which studies Agricultural festivals and Spiritual ecologies in the Volta River basin of Ghana during the early modern period. A spin-off article from this project is forthcoming in the Journal of West African History. His work is also forthcoming in the University of Wisconsin Press. 

In this episode, Scotland's first Black Professor, Sir Geoff Palmer, joins me in conversation about his personal experiences as part of the Windrush generation in UK history. Sir Palmer is also a leading intellectual on the history of Scotland's involvement in the slave trade.

In this episode, we will be discussing the history of slavery and colonialism during the early modern period as evidenced through French art. This episode aims to examine slavery and colonialism in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is Professor Meredith Martin. Dr. Martin is a Professor of Art History at New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts. A specialist in early modern French art and empire, she is the co-author (with Gillian Weiss) of the award-winning book The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (Getty, 2022).

In this episode, my long-time friend and colleague, Amir Blair, will interview me as I present
a book review of Ida Altman’s 2021, Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The
Greater Antilles, 1493–1550. Amir obtained his BA in Anthropology from the University of South Florida where he also earned a MA in Library & Information Science. Amir currently works as a User Experience Librarian for North Carolina State University Libraries.

In this episode, we discuss the history of West African women’s transatlantic organizing for rights in West Africa. This episode examines West African women’s mobilization for women’s rights and their links to the wider international women’s movement of the early – mid-twentieth century in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is Aincre Evans. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in History at the University of Oxford, where she is a Black Academic Futures Scholar. She has a Master of Studies in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of Oxford and an MA in African studies from Leiden University, in The Netherlands. Aincre has lectured on various subjects in the field of African Studies across several universities and began her academic career in The Netherlands, where she co-designed and taught a course titled ‘The Idea of Africa’ for two years before moving to Ghana and working for the Institute of African Studies at Legon.

In this episode, Gabriel Panuco-Mercado joins me in conversation about his research on the history of Mexico’s Green Revolution. This episode examines gendered and environmental challenges in Mexican cane and maize-producing communities in the context of global agricultural industrialization. Gabriel is a PhD student in Latin American History at Stanford University.

In this episode, Sasha Wells—MA student from the University of Florida—discusses the history of Urban Slavery in The Bahamas during the Loyalist period (1784-1834) within the context of the Atlantic World.