Finance | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 91ÑÇÉ« Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:14:13 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.10 Carlito Oliveira Junior /research/tubman/profile/carlito-oliveira-junior/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:54:48 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=9486 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, 91ÑÇÉ«. 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 Recôncavo 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 São 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

]]> Omosalewa O. Olawoye /research/tubman/profile/omosalewa-o-olawoye-mann/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:32:48 +0000 /tubmandev/?post_type=profile&p=1555 Salewa is an Associate Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at 91ÑÇÉ«. She is the current Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas at 91ÑÇÉ«, Canada. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Science Consortium (University of Missouri – Kansas City, 2016). Her research focuses on heterodox approaches to sustainable economic development through natural resources, and monetary theory. She takes a bottom-up approach towards money from the individual level to the central bank. Her interdisciplinary research work mainly focuses on these issues in the Sub-Saharan African region. She co-edited the book, Monetary Policy and Central Banking: New Directions in Post-Keynesian Theory (2012) and has an edited book, COVID-19 and the Response of Central Banks: Coping with Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023). 

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