Speaking Event – “How Brazil Became an Empire”

Join us on Monday, February 17th as Dr. José Juan Pérez Meléndez speaks about “How Brazil Became an Empire: The Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization”. The event will take place in Macy 206 at 2:30 pm.

Professor José Juan Pérez Meléndez is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes on nineteenth-century Brazil in broad Atlantic and world history contexts. His research centers on political, business and migratory dynamics that have shaped governmental mechanisms of population control and transport in the Americas. Before arriving at Davis, Professor Pérez Meléndez completed a postdoctoral stay as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. His first book, titled Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil: Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization (2024), charts the formation of early migration policy in Brazil in counterpoint to global processes.

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