Brandi Waters

Brandi M. Waters is a doctoral candidate in the joint program in Latin American History and African American Studies. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Latin American History from Johns Hopkins University. Her research explores the intersections of slavery, medical practice, and the law in the late colonial period in Latin America, with specific interests in the role of disability and health status in legal claims in areas of Colombia, Brazil, and the United States. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Tinker Foundation, CLAIS, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.