Selina Patel Nascimento

Selina Patel Nascimento is a Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Lancaster University's Department of History within the School of Global Affairs. She serves as the department's Decolonisation Lead and Schools Liaison contact, focusing on intersectional experiences of enslaved and marginalised women within global concubinage systems across the Luso-Atlantic world.

Her academic background includes:

• BA (Joint Honours) in German and Beginners' Portuguese, University of Nottingham (2009)
• MA (by Research) in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, University of Nottingham (2010)
• PhD in History, Newcastle University (2016)

Her research centers on gendered slavery dynamics, concubinage as a transnational phenomenon, and colonial legacies in Brazil and Angola. She examines how enslaved women navigated power structures within Portuguese imperial networks, bridging historical analysis with contemporary decolonial frameworks to challenge Eurocentric historiography.

Her scholarly output demonstrates consistent focus on Luso-Atlantic gendered slavery, with recent work analyzing spatial dimensions of imperial power. Current publications explore concubinage as a discrete analytical category for comparative studies across African, Asian, and American contexts, emphasizing mobility and resistance in slave societies.

Key recognitions include:

• AHRC Doctoral Fellowship
• AHRC Research Grant for 'Defining Concubinage in the Luso-Atlantic World'
• Royal Historical Society Grant
• Society for Latin American Studies Grant

Dr. Patel Nascimento actively supervises PhD candidates like Anna Drury and teaches core courses including 'Histories of Violence' and 'A World Full of Concubines'. She leads the AHRC-funded project on Luso-Atlantic concubinage while developing community impact initiatives through her Schools Liaison role. Her grant portfolio includes multiple projects examining enslaved women's social mobility in Maranhão and counter-histories of the African diaspora.

As Decolonisation Lead, she directs curriculum transformation efforts across the History department, collaborating with academic teams on decolonial pedagogy. Her current research collective investigates concubinary networks between Brazil and Angola while developing comparative frameworks for global concubinage studies.