Alice Diniz

Alice Dinz, smiling, wearing a dark coat and checkered shirt, sitting on a stone wall with historic buildings behind.
adinizoliveiramelo@g.harvard.edu

Alice Diniz is a Brazilian researcher who entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall 2025. Prior to Harvard, she earned a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master's degree in Social History, both from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, with an emphasis on the exploitation, coercion, and disciplining of labor; the production of discourses and strategies for maintaining racial hierarchies among free and enslaved workers; and the formulation of race and labor policies within the Spanish Empire.