A broadly comparative Afro-Latin American historian focusing primarily on Brazil in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Zach joins us most recently from Penn State University. His first book, Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World (Indiana University Press, 2014) examines resistance among Afro-Brazilian sailors to the treatment they endured at the hands of the Brazilian state. He is currently undergoing a broader examination of state and institutional coercion (including the army, navy, legislature, police force, apprenticeship schools, and orphanages) of free Afro-Brazilian people into forced labor preceding and during the breakdown of Atlantic slavery in the nineteenth century. Zach’s peer-reviewed work has been published in The Journal of Black Studies, The Americas, The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Oxford Bibliographies Online, and in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture.