Activity Type:
Lecture Series / Brown Bag
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Presenter:
Mariana Dantas
Date:
Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 13:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall and Zoom
Please register to attend. Lunch will be provided.
Mariana L. R. Dantas is associate professor of history at Ohio University. She is the author of Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (Palgrave, 2008) and co-author with Emma Hart of Early Modern Atlantic Cities (CUP, 2024). Her work has been published in The Americas, the Journal of Family History, African Economic History, Almanack, International Review of Social History, Revue Brésil(s), among other outlets. She is a founding member and executive board member of the Global Urban History Project [www.globalurbanhistory.org] and is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Global Urban History.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Latin American Studies
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Pitt Undergrads:
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Pitt Grad Students:
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