معرفی
Messias Basques is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow, serving as Convenor of the Masters in Reparatory Justice program. Previously, he held positions at Harvard University (Visiting Research Scholar, 2022-2023) and Williams College (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024). He holds a BA in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo and a PhD in Anthropology from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro.
His research focuses on Black diasporic experiences, Afrodiasporic literature, antiracism in academia, and Indigenous peoples in Brazil. Current projects include Untold Lives: Black Enslaved People and the Scottish Trade in South America, funded by the University of Glasgow Chancellor's Fund (2025-2026), examining Scottish slaveholding and its legacies. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles and is editing his first monograph Black Voices in Anthropology, which re-centers Black anthropological thought.
- Grants/Awards: Chancellor's Fund (2025), Mellon Fellowship (2023-2024), Leadership Fellows Program (AAA, 2023), Best Teaching Project (2022), Science Communication Prize (2022)
- Supervision: Lottie Fountain (Indigenous faunal relationships), Shannon MacLean (Capoeira and Black diaspora in Glasgow), Katie Bonnyman (UK-Caribbean reparations)
- Labs/Initiatives: Reparatory Justice Program coordinator, Brazilian Anthropological Association outreach committee member, translator of seminal Afro-diasporic literature
