Tinker Visiting Professor

Wlamyra Ribeiro de Albuquerque

Wlamyra Ribeiro de Albuquerque is associate professor in history at the Universidade Federal da Bahia and one of Brazil’s most important historians of slavery, abolition, racialization, and Black intellectual life. She is author or co-author of two monographs, three collaborative books, two edited volumes, and more than twenty articles. Albuquerque’s signal historiographical contribution is O jogo da dissimulação: abolição e cidadania negra no Brasil (2009), in which she painstakingly mined thousands of pages of judicial documentation to uncover the daily processes of quotidian racialization and identity formation. Her co-authored Uma história da cultura Afro-Brasileira won the Premio Jabuti (Brazil’s equivalent of the Pulitzer) in 2010. She has begun to publish in English, contributing to edited collections and the field-defining Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Albuquerque was named to a competitive fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in 2015.

TVP Details
Employer/Affiliation Universidade Federal da Bahia
Job Title Associate Professor
Country of Residence Brazil
Field of expertise History
Specialty emancipation, abolition, racialization and post-abolition in Brazil
Host University Details
University name University of Chicago
Department History
Academic Year 2021-2022
Term/Semester Spring