Daniel
Strum
Research Topic
Diaspora, Law, and Market in the Making of the Early Modern Atlantic: Portuguese Jews and New Christians in the Sugar Trade
Bio
Daniel Strum is a professor in the History Department at the University of São Paulo. He researches the judicial and reputational mechanisms that supported the expansion of markets in the trans-Atlantic trade during early modern times.
Strum received his PhD in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford and Yale universities, and was granted the Clarival do Prado Valladares Prize in Brazilian History, the Hanadiv Fellowship in European History, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rector and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology doctoral fellowships.
Selected publications
- “Institutional Choice in the Governance of the Early Atlantic Sugar Trade: Diasporas, Markets and Courts,” Economic History Review 71.4 (2019)
- The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands (1595–1630) (Stanford University Press, 2013)
