Miguel Rodrigues
Post-Doc Researcher
- E-mail: miguel.rodrigues@iisg.nl
- Department: Research
Miguel Rodrigues is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social History, currently working on the Portuguese and Spanish slave trade in Asia for the project The Global Business of Slave Trade: Patterns, Actors and Gains in the Early Modern Dutch and Iberian Slave Trade. Miguel obtained his PhD in History at the European University Institute (Florence) in 2019, with a dissertation on the early modern Iberian slave trade, examining its financial structures, trade networks, and role in shaping Iberian Atlantic societies between West Central Africa and Spanish America, with a focus on colonial Angola. Miguel has previously worked as a research associate in the Department of History at Lancaster University in a project exploring the slaving accounts of the South Sea Company, and earlier as a postdoc at the ERC project VINCULUM at NOVA University (Lisbon), which mapped the institution of entails (Morgadios) in the Portuguese empire, and explored the relationship between the institution of entails, slavery, and creolization in the colonial societies of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Publications: Miguel Rodrigues - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
