Aline Najara Gonçalves is a black Brazilian woman from Alagoinhas, Bahia, located in the interior of Brazil's Northeast. She is a mother, a lesbian and a follower of Candomblé.

She holds a PhD in History (UFRRJ), a Master's in Language Studies (UNEB) and is a specialist in Afro-Brazilian History (FAVIC). She is a volunteer researcher and vice-coordinator of the Laboratory of African Studies and the Atlantic Space at UNEB (LEAFRO-UNEB) and a member of the Study Group on the Worlds of Labor and Post-Abolition at UFRRJ (TRAMPA - UFRRJ). At the Study and Research Group on Alagoinhas (GEPEA), she coordinates the research on Ethnic-Racial and Religions Studies.

She is the author of the books Luiza Mahin: An African Queen in Brazil (CEAP, 2011) and Luiza Mahin: The Warrior of the Malês (CEAP, 2011), as well as the thesis “It is to contain blacks”: debates and narratives on the issue of the servile element in the Empire of Brazil, 1865-1908. (2022).

She is currently developing postdoctoral research at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh, entitled "The paradox of emancipation: The structuring of racism, social ordering and privileges in emancipationist laws in Colombia and Brazil during the 19th century", as a Postdoctoral Research Visiting Fellow within the scope of the University Consortium for Afro Latin American Studies.

Cristiana Schettini is full professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Advanced Social Studies of the National University of San Martín (EIDAES-UNSAM) and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina. She has published several articles on sex work and connected histories in Argentina and Brazil. Her latest book is Clichés baratos: sexo e humor na imprensa ilustrada carioca (Ed. Unicamp, 2020).

Dr. Erika Denise Edwards is an Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Edwards's research advocates for a re-learning of Argentina's Black past and the origins of anti-blackness throughout the Americas. She has published the award-winning book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law and the Making of a White Argentine Republic. Edwards has been interviewed and/or consulted by La Voz del Interior, Buenos Aires Times, Telemundo, The World Bank, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. She has provided various talks to institutions and organizations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. She teaches courses on African Diaspora, Crime, and Black Women’s history at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Fabiane Popinigis holds a degree and and a doctorate in history (Universidade de Campinas, UNICAMP, 1999) with a doctoral internship at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. Her thesis on the associative movement of the retail shop workers and their fight for shorter working hours won the prize Several Histories of CECULT/UNICAMP, which led to the publication of the book Proletários de Casaca-trabalhadores no comércio carioca(1850-1911) in 2007.

In 2014 she was Resident Fellow at the Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, at the University of Buenos Aires. Member of Anpuh (National Association of History), of ALHIS (Asociacion Latinoamericana e Iberica de Historia Social) and REDLATT (Rede Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Trabajo y Trabajadores). Between 2009 and 2014 was editor of Revista Mundos do Trabalho and between 2018 and 2021she coordinated the Brazilian Academic Network of Labor Historians. Between 2021 and 2023 she was coordinator of the History Phd Program at UFRRJ.

She is Currently Associate Professor at the History Department of UFRRJ (Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and has experience in the area of History, acting mainly on the following subjects: labor history, slavery and abolition and gender relations.

Jocelyn Olcott is Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University and the director of an NEH-funded international interdisciplinary research network Revaluing Care in the Global Economy. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005) and International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History (2017) and the co-editor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico(2006) and The Academic’s Handbook (2020).

Keila Grinberg (PhD, Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2000) has recently been appointed Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. A native of Rio de Janeiro, she joined Pitt after being a member of the History Department of the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro for almost twenty years. During that time, she also had appointments as Visiting Professor at Northwestern University and at the University of Michigan, as Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and as the Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations at New York University.

A specialist on slavery and race in the Atlantic World, she has authored, co-authored, and edited several books and articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Russian, including A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship (UNC Press, 2019), a finalist of the 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She also co-directs the public digital history project "Present Pasts: Memories of Slavery in Brazil." Her most recent research project examines nineteenth-century cases of kidnapping and illegal enslavement on the southern Brazilian border. She is also interested in Jewish History, the teaching and writing of History, and memory and public history of slavery.

Michelle McKinley is the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon Law School. McKinley works on public international law, Latin American legal history, and the law of slavery. Her monograph, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700, examines enslaved women in colonial Lima who used ecclesiastical and civil courts to litigate their claims to liberty.

Paulo Cruz Terra is an Associate Professor at Fluminense Federal University in Brazil and a Fellow of CNPq and FAPERJ. His studies are related to labor history in Brazil, and his actual research is about vagrancy history in Brazil and Portuguese Africa. His last book, Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil, was an edited volume organized with other colleagues and published in Germany by De Gruyter.

Paulo Fontes is an Associate Professor at the History Institute of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UFRJ) and a Researcher of the Brazilian Scientific Research Council (CNPq) and the Rio de Janeiro State Research Agency (FAPERJ). Currently he is a fellow at Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University (2024/25). At UFRJ he is the coordinator of the Laboratório de Estudos de História dos Mundos do Trabalho (LEHMT), that leads the most important Brazilian labor history website as public history (lehmt.org).

Paulo received his PhD in Social History from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in 2003. Paulo was also a Visiting Professor at Duke (2004) and Princeton (2006/7) Universities in the US and Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam in 2013 and the re:work Institute of Humboldt University in Berlin (2014). A historian of Brazilian labour and working-class culture after the WorldWar II, Paulo is the author of several articles, book chapters and books. His book Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo (Duke U Press) was the winner of the first Thomas Skidmore Prize, sponsored by the Brazilian National Archive and the Brazilian Studies Association.

Sara Hidalgo is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at CIDE in Mexico City. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 2020. Her research explores the intersection of labor and public health in post-revolutionary Mexico, with a particular focus on how gender, class, and ethnic background shaped the country’s fragmented welfare state.