Vanessa Oliveira

Vanessa Oliveira

Currently an Assistant Professor of African History at the Royal Military College of Canada. Completed her PhD in history at York University in 2016 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto from 2016 to 2018. Her book Abolition, Gender and Slavery at Luanda is under contract with the University of Wisconsin Press, scheduled to be published in 2019. She has published articles in History in Africa, Portuguese Studies Review, and African Economic History as well as book chapters in edited volumes in both Portuguese and English. She is a co-editor with Dr. Paul E. Lovejoy of Slavery, Memory and Citizenship (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016). She was taught courses on the history of early and modern Africa. My research interests include: West Central Africa, Angola, Brazil, Enslavement, the South Atlantic, African Women’s History, Gender, and Sexuality.