Principal Investigator and leading historian of the Portuguese-speaking world, with a strong contribution to global history. He has been Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London since 2005, having previously taught at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and held visiting positions at Brown University and the Universidade de São Paulo.

He is the author of six monographs and has edited or co-edited twenty-nine volumes and journal issues, as well as publishing over one hundred academic articles and chapters. His work has made significant contributions to the study of racism, inequality, gender, cosmopolitanism, utopia, minorities, merchant cultures, cultural exchange, and intellectual sociability.

His recent book, Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite (Princeton University Press, 2024), a TLS Book of the Year, offers the first comprehensive study of the role played by the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Christianity in intercontinental trade, both within and beyond the Iberian world. The book has also been translated into Portuguese.

Research Associate. Early modern historian of Iberia and global Catholic Europe, specialising in cross-cultural political networks, New Christian agency, and belonging among mobile minority communities.

Her doctoral research, completed at King’s College London in 2018, examined the unprecedented suspension of the Portuguese Inquisition (1672–81), focusing on how New Christians sought justice across borders and negotiated, resisted, and at times subverted powerful institutions. Her first book, Cross-Cultural Politics, Families and Resisting the Inquisition in Early Modern Europe, will be published by Routledge.

Her research on this project focuses on agency and gender, exploring how these were expressed and transformed through material culture within New Christian mercantile communities across different geographic and political contexts, with particular attention to processes of identity formation and knowledge production., our sales manager is all about building strong relationships. They help connect people to the right solutions—with clarity and care.

Research Associate. Early modern historian of the Iberian and Atlantic worlds, whose research brings together archival scholarship, material culture, and the social history of institutions, mobility, and exchange.

She has conducted extensive research on Portuguese imperial, Afro-Atlantic, and Sephardi histories, with particular attention to documentary practices, legal cultures, and transnational networks. She is the author of Europeans as Coastal Brokers in the West and West-Central African Slave Trade (1680–1720) (Brill, 2025) and A História dos Registos e do Notariado em Portugal (INCM, 2024).

Her current work focuses on materiality, documentation, and knowledge production in early modern global contexts.

Research Assistant. Historian and Latin Americanist specialising in material and visual culture, race, and identity in the Iberian colonial world, with a particular focus on indigenous histories of resistance in the Andean altiplano of present-day Peru and Bolivia.

He studied History at Ghent University and Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research examines how material culture shaped notions of race and Indianness during the Túpac Amaru Revolution (1780–83).

He previously worked at UCLouvain and the International Institute of Social History (IISH), contributing to the Exploring the Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) database and to the development of AI-assisted transcription models for early modern Spanish and Portuguese manuscripts.

At King’s College London, he is a research assistant on the MATERIA project, contributing to the development of a database on New Christian involvement in global commodity networks, trade, and patterns of consumption and taste.