Dr. Marcella Schute is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, working on the project 'Racialised Motherhood.' She is currently a visiting researcher at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication until February 2026.
Marcella specialises in American history, the history of Atlantic slavery, gender history, and political history. Marcella obtained her PhD entitled Securing the Future of Black Labor: Covert Attempts to Reopen the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Louisiana, 1853-1861 from Leiden University in 2025. Her dissertation, supervised by Prof. Dr. Damian Pargas, explored the covert attempts by the state of Louisiana to reopen the transatlantic slave trade from West Africa in the 1850s. Specifically, it investigates what the motivations and strategies of the Louisiana elite were to reopen this trade. Her dissertation is currently being revised into a manuscript for publication with Louisiana State University Press.
Contact
- Email address
- schute@eshcc.eur.nl