Sabrina Gledhill

The author of 'Black Atlantic Crossings' (2025), a book comparing Brazilian and US race relations based on the lives of Booker T. Washington and Manuel R. Querino, Sabrina Gledhill has also edited 'Manuel Querino (1851-1923): An Afro-Brazilian Pioneer in the Age of Scientific Racism', 'The Need for Heroes: Black Intellectuals Dig Up Their Past', and 'Heroes Sung and Unsung: Black Artists in World History'. All three contain essays by leading thinkers and authors from the US and Brazil. An award-winning translator, Gledhill's publications in that role include 'Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil', by João José Reis, and 'Francisco de Paula Brito: A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil', by Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi. A British citizen raised in Puerto Rico who spent nearly three decades in Brazil, Sabrina Gledhill is an independent scholar with an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA and a PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). She is a corresponding member of the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia (Bahia Geographic and Historical Institute, IGHB).