Victoria Zabarte is a first-year History PhD student studying the history of race and slavery throughout the Americas, particularly during the nineteenth century.
She graduated from Rice University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a B.A. in History and a minor in African and African American Studies. Her honors thesis about the coastwise slave trade to Texas was awarded the Henrietta Wood Memorial Prize for reconstructing the voices of the marginalized.
While in graduate school, Victoria is interested in exploring comparative studies of slavery in the United States and Hispanophone Caribbean. She hopes to focus her research on the lives and varied experiences of enslaved children, especially those who lost and gained kinship networks through the intra-American slave trade.