Advisor: Daniel Domingues da Silva

Gabriel de Souza Miguel is a PhD student in the Department of History at Rice University. He earned his BA and MA in History from the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Miguel’s research concentrates on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora in the South Atlantic. He has worked as a research assistant on SlaveVoyages’ Digital Projects for the Public Production, a grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities titled “Global Passages: Creating a Public Database of Slaving Voyages across the Indian Ocean and Asia,” and served as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Southern History, which is published and sponsored by Rice University. Currently, he is a Grad Rep, serving as a liaison between graduate students and faculty.