Pedro Machado

Pedro Machado is associate professor of history and director of the Dhar India Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a global and Indian Ocean historian with interests in commodity histories; enslavement and unfree labor and migratory movements; and the social, cultural, environmental, and commercial trajectories of objects. He is author of Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants and Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1850 and coeditor of Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean: An Ocean of Cloth and Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds.