Alexandre Pelegrino
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Alexandre Pelegrino is an assistant professor in the Department of History. An historian of Latin America with a focus on the history of slavery, Indigenous history, and race formation, Pelegrino’s research considers how Indigenous enslavement persisted in 18th-century northern Brazil and how it connects to the enslavement of people of African descent.
He is currently working on his first book project based on his dissertation, Bonds of Belonging: Slaving, Indigeneity, and Race in Amazonia (1688-1798). Pelegrino’s research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).
One of his articles, From Slaves to Índios: Empire, Slavery, and Race (Maranhão, Brazil, c. 1740-90), received an honorable mention on two prizes: the Jane Burbank Global Legal History Article Prize and the Surrency Prize for the best article published in the American Society for Legal History’s journal, the Law and History Review.
Before arriving in Toronto, Pelegrino received his BA and MA from Fluminense Federal University and his PhD from Vanderbilt University. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, as part of its SlaveVoyages project.