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Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado

  • Additional Steering Committee Member History Department
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  • Professor of History at the University of São Paulo
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado is currently a Professor in History at the Universidade de São Paulo. Her major publications include O Plano e o Pânico: os movimentos sociais na década da Abolição [The Plot and the Panic: social movements during the decade of Abolition in Brazil] (2nd ed., EDUSP, 2010) and Crime e Escravidão [Crime and Slavery] (Brasiliense, 1987). Her current research covers early racial photography, slave biographies, and the medicalized body of nineteenth-century women in slavery.