People

Pedro Machado

Associate Professor

Phone:

(812) 855-1320

Email:

pmachado@indiana.edu

Pedro Machado is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Dhar India Studies Program, Indiana University. He is a global and Indian Ocean historian with interests in commodity histories, labor and migratory movements, and the social, cultural, environmental and commercial trajectories of objects. He is the author of several works, among which are Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); and Pearls, People and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Ohio University Press, 2020). He is currently at work on a global history of pearling and shell collection and exchange while also developing research on eucalyptus and colonial forestry in the Portuguese empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Olimpia Rosenthal

Associate Professor

Phone:

(812) 855-8807

Email:

orosenth@indiana.edu

Olimpia E. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. She is a scholar of colonialism in Latin America, specializing in literary and cultural production that reflects material practices of domination, the long-term effects of colonization, and the ways in which imperial power has been challenged and contested. Her first book, Race, Sex and Segregation in Colonial Latin America (Routledge 2022), examines the emergence and early development of indigenous segregationist policies in Spanish and Portuguese America. The book shows that segregationist measures influenced the material reorganization of space, shaped colonial processes of racialization, and contributed to the politicization of reproductive sex. She has also organized a series of international conferences, including one on Subaltern Studies at Indiana University’s Gateway Center in India. She is currently working on a project on the political economy of the Amazonian rubber boom, which emphasizes the human and ecological devastation of the exploitation of rubber.