#  Alice Diniz 

 

 



   ![Alice Dinz, smiling, wearing a dark coat and checkered shirt, sitting on a stone wall with historic buildings behind.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-09/Picture%20of%20Alice%20Dinz.jpg?itok=l6ML4qsX) 

 



 

 email <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.



 

 

 





 

 

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