Gabriel Seghetto is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at Rice University. He holds a master’s degree in History from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), where he specialized in race and ethnicity in eighteenth-century Angola. His master’s thesis, Ambivalent Meanings: Mixed-Race Political Identities and Color Qualifications in Eighteenth-Century Angola, examines how the evolving definitions of mulatto and pardo were shaped by the shifting politico-cultural boundaries between the colonial state and African polities. His research focuses on the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, with a particular interest in race relations, miscegenation, and racial classifications, especially concerning individuals of mixed ancestry.