# Biographies of Authors  
## Editor and Introductions  
Vanicléia SILVA SANTOS Ph.D. in Social History (2008) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently curator of the African Collection at the Penn Museum \& a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States), and a member of the International Scientific Committee for the General History of Africa, volumes IX to XI. She was a Professor of African History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, State University of Bahia, and other Brazilian and foreign institutions. Her publications address African history and its diasporas, material culture, museums, and gender.