
Mecila – Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, Brazil
Clemente Penna holds a Ph.D. in social history from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with a fellowship stay at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University (2019). His doctoral thesis, Economias Urbanas: capital, créditos e escravidão na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, c.1820–1860, was the recipient of the 2019–2020 Brazilian Association of Economic History (ABPHE) award for best doctoral thesis and the prize of best doctoral dissertation (2019-2021) in the Congresso Latino Americano de História Económica (CLADEH 2022). He is currently and Associate Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America.