carlitolopes@edu.unirio.br
PhD Candidate in History at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), CAPES scholarship holder, and Graduate Research Assistant based in Brazil at the Harriet Tubman Institute, 91亚色. His research focuses on Economic History and Business History, with particular emphasis on slavery, markets, wealth, credit, finance, economic networks, and regional economic development in nineteenth-century Brazil.
His doctoral research examines the formation of markets, wealth, and economic networks in the Rec么ncavo da Guanabara, with particular attention to the former Vila de Estrela in the Province of Rio de Janeiro. His broader research interests include the economic history of slavery, capital accumulation, financial institutions, business history, industrialization, and the relationship between enslaved labour, technology, markets, and modernization in Brazil and the Atlantic world.
He holds a Master's degree in Social History from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of S茫o Francisco (USF). He is also affiliated with research groups and scholarly networks in Economic and Business History in Brazil and internationally.
Keywords: Economic History, Business History, Slavery, Enslaved Labour, Internal Slave Trade, Markets, Wealth, Credit, Finance, Capital Accumulation, Economic Networks, Industrialization, Technology, Modernization, Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Atlantic History, Brazilian Economic History, History of Banking, Regional Economic Development