Alicia L. Monroe is a historian of modern Latin America specializing in the study of slavery, freedom, and black-identified religious and secular associations in nineteenth and twentieth century southeastern Brazil. Her research focuses on African diaspora religious experiences, post-emancipation civic societies, and representations of Afro-Brazilian laborers in early Brazilian photography with an emphasis on gender and lived experience. Her research has received support from the J. William Fulbright Fellowship, the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, and UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Her recent publications have appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Journal of Africana Religions.