Advisor: Daniel Domingues da Silva

Gabriel de Souza Miguel is a PhD student at the Department of History of Rice University. He graduated with a BA and an MA in History from the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Miguel’s research focuses on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora in the South Atlantic. He is a research assistant with SlaveVoyages’ Digital Projects for the Public production grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, “Global Passages: Creating a Public Database of Slaving Voyages across the Indian Ocean and Asia.” He also works as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Southern History, which is edited and sponsored by Rice University.