Periodic Reporting for period 1 - BIRTHBRAZIL (Birthing Abolition: Reproduction and the Gradual End of Slavery in Brazil)
Período documentado: 2017-09-01 hasta 2019-08-31
D.1.1 – Creation and implementation of Career Development Plan on 22/09/2017
D.1.2 D.1.3 – Active participation in professional development activities
- Completed 7 writing workshops (13/10/18; 23/10/18; 03/11/18; 06/11/18; 10/11/18; 24/11/18; 08/12/18)
D.1.4 – Apply to fund international conference
- Budgeted funding from the Marie Curie (01/2019)
- Applied for and received funding from the Royal Historical Society (05/2019)
Work Package 2: Public Engagement and Outreach Activities
D.2.1 – Media/website training and creation of website
- Worked with IT, created website for project and conference: https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/research/research-projects/birthing-abolition
- Created personal website: http://cassiaroth.com/current-research/
D.2.2 – Regular contribution to public history blogs (6)
- Blog post 1, Nursing Clio, November 9, 2017, “On Poverty, Morality, and Mothering” –
- Blog post 2, Nursing Clio, December 20, 2017, “Black Nurse, White Milk: Wet Nursing and Slavery in Brazil”
- Blog Post 3, Nursing Clio, January 9, 2018, “A Midwife for Every Woman: Maternal Healthcare in Malawi”
- Blog post 4, Editor, history of gender, race, and medicine in Latin America series, February 15, 2018 Nursing Clio
- Blog post 5, Nursing Clio, March 19, 2018, “#MarielleFrancoPresente”
- Blog post 6, Nursing Clio, May 22, 2018, “Joan Scott, Liberalism, and Abortion Rights”
D.2.3 – Public lectures (3)
- Spoke at UK Parliament (London) on women’s suffrage in Latin America, 09/02/2018
D.2.4 – Presentation with colleagues at Edinburgh
- Discussion of Jake Blanc’s paper, Centre for Global and Contemporary History 14/11/17
- Discussion of Gayle Davis infertility book, Gender & Sexuality; Science, Medicine, & Technology 29/11/17
- Research presentation, Gender & Sexuality Group, 14/02/2018
WP3 – Demographic History of Slavery
D.3.4 – Academic Presentation
- European Social Science History Conference, 4-7 April, Belfast, Ireland. Paper titled "Malthus in the Tropics: Sterilization in Early 20th-Century Brazil"
- Brazilian Studies Association Conference, 25-28 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Paper titled “History of Childbirth in 19th-Century Brazil”
WP4 – Enslaved Women’s Reproductive Practices
D.4.1 – Draft of Ch. 3, “Birthing Slavery: Maternal-Infant Health in the 19th century”
- Read and analyzed 50 years of medical journals and dissertations related to enslaved women’s reproductive health
D.4.2 – Academic Presentation
- “Slave Subjectivities in the Atlantic World,” 2-4 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. Paper, “Spectres of the Womb: Enslaved Reproduction, Elite Responses, and Abolition in Brazil”
D.4.3 – Archival Research
- Conducted archival research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (01/2018; 07/2018)
- Conducted archival research in Lisbon, Portugal (04/2018)
D.4.4 Submission of First Article
- Submitted 06/2018; published 11/2018 – “Black Nurse, White Milk: Breastfeeding, Slavery, and Abolition in Nineteenth-Century Brazil” (Journal of Human Lactation)
WP5 – Elite Views on Enslaved Reproduction
D.5.5 – International Conference – Intimate Politics: Fertility Control in a Global Historical Perspective, 23-34 May 2018
- 25 scholars from the US, Canada, UK, ERA, China,South Africa, and Turkey
WP6 – Gendering the Abolition of Slavery
D.6.1 – Module, “Engendering Abolition Across the Americas”
- Team taught master’s module Diana “Gender and the History of the Americas,” 01/2018 – 04/2018