Marcelo Ferraro is a doctoral student in History from the University of São Paulo and a Global Fellow from Harvard University. He holds a law and history degree from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he also obtained a master’s degree. His previous research on architecture and slavery in the Paraíba Valley analyzed the formation of the Brazilian slave class and state political and judicial institutions. Guided by Professor Rafael Marquese, he recently began to explore slavery and punishment in the Paraíba Valley and the Mississippi Valley, as a comparative and integrative experience of institutional violence in slave and post-abolition societies in the 19th century Atlantic world.

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