IOWC Research Associates
Pedro Machado
Pedro Machado is Assistant Professor of South Asian and Global History in the Department of History at Santa Clara University. He holds an MA in History (with distinction, 1997) from the University of New Hampshire, and a PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2005). He has previously held posts at New York University (2005-7), Long Island University (2002-3) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1999-2002). Dr. Machado also worked as a researcher on the Atlantic Slave Trade CD-Rom Project, jointly managed by the Universities of Hull, Chicago, Rochester and Wisconsin (2004) and on the Global History of Leprosy Project, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University (2003).
Dr. Machado, whose languages include Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Gujarati, French and Kiswahili, has been the recipient of numerous research awards and fellowships, including a Fundacao Gulbenkian Research Award (1998); and a Postgraduate Fellowship (2000-2001) and Visiting Fellowship (2005) from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London (2005). He has researched and published on various aspects of Indian Ocean World trade, notably on India-Mozambique maritime exchange. He is currently conducting research for a manuscript under preparation entitled Mobile Histories: South Asian, Africa and the western Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Publications:
Forthcoming. Mobile Histories: South Asian, Africa and the western Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
2008. "Cloths of a New Fashion: Networks of Exchange, African Consumerism and Cloth Zones of Contact in India and the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," in Tirthankar Roy, Om Prakash, Kaoru Sugihara and Giorgio Riello (eds.), How India Clothed the World, (Liden: Brill)
2008. "Awash in a Sea of Cloth: South Asia, Cloth and Consumption in the Indian Ocean, 1300-1800," in Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello (eds.), South Asian Textiles in the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
2008. Review of Rainer F. Buschmann, Oceans in World History (New York: McGraw Hill, 2006), Journal of Global History 3.2: 277-9.
2008. Review of Stewart Lloyd-Jones and Antonio Costa Pinto (eds.), The Last Empire: Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003), European History Quarterly 38.1: 158-60.
2007. Review of Gwyn Campbell, An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (New York: Cambridge University Press), The Historian
2006. Review of Patrick Chabal (with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibertand Elisa Silva Andrade), A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa (London: Hurst and Company, 2002), The Journal of Southern African Studies 31.1 (March 2006): 183-5.
2004. "A Forgotten Corner of the Western Indian Ocean: Gujarati Merchants, Portuguese India and the Mozambique Slave Trade, c.1730-1830," in Gwyn Campbell (ed.), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge): 17-32 (reprint of 2003 article).
2003. "A Forgotten Corner of the Western Indian Ocean: Gujarati Merchants, Portuguese India and the Mozambique Slave Trade, c.1730-1830," Slavery & Abolition 24.2: 17–32.
2001. "Without Scales and Balances: Gujarati Merchants in Mozambique, c.1680s-1800," Portuguese Studies Review 9.1-2 (Special Double Number: 'The Evolution of Portuguese Asia, 1498-1998'): 254-88.
2001. Review of David Birmingham, Portugal and Africa (New York: Houndmills & Basingstoke: Macmillan St. Martin’s Press, 1999), The International Journal of African Historical Studies 34.1: 244-5.
1999-2000. Review of M.N. Pearson, Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India and Portugal in the Early Modern Period (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), Portuguese Studies Review 8.1
1996-1997. Review of Malyn Newitt, A History of Mozambique (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995), Portuguese Studies Review 5.2
