Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes

Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. Her studies focus on liberated Africans in the Atlantic World, especially in the Portuguese Empire. Her former research was funded by the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland and reflected on liberated African women, domestic service, and experiences of freedom in Brazil. Prior to her studies in the United States, Ana Mendes worked as a professor at the Catholic University of Parana, in Brazil, where she taught history of food and its relationship with race and Afro-Brazilian religions. 

Advisor: Roquinaldo Ferreira