EDUCATION
September 2020 – : Ph.D in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics
University of Bologna, Italy.
Dissertation Title (provisional): ‘Communication and Empire. The Role of Interpreters in the Portuguese World, 1450-1550’
Supervisors: Prof. Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Bologna/Oxford University) and Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon)
September 2016 – July 2018: M.Phil in Global Cultures
University of Bologna, Italy. Final grade: 110/110 Cum Laude
Dissertation Title: ‘Interpreters in the early Iberian colonial expansion, 1436-1537’.
Supervisors: Prof. Davide Domenici and Prof. Karin Pallaver, Dpt. of History and Cultures, University of Bologna.
2013 - 2016: BA in History
Lumière University Lyon 2, France. Final grade: 16,75/20, Mention Très Bien
2015 – 2016: Erasmus exchange with the University of Bologna, Italy
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
July 2022 (Upcoming):
International Conference “Beyond King Manuel I. The Portuguese Empire in a Changing World, c. 1450-1550”, University of Coimbra, Coimbra
Paper Title: ‘Tricksters and Fixers : Interpreters and Trans-linguistic Communication in the Portuguese World, 1500-1530’.
June 2018:
Global Histories | The Berlin International Student Conference, Frei Universität, Berlin
Paper Title: ‘The slave-interpreter system in the fifteenth century Atlantic World’.
October 2017:
IOWC Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History, McGill University, Montreal
Paper Title: ‘Interpreters in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century’.
PUBLICATIONS
J. Jackson-Eade (2018a) ‘The role of interpreters during the early Portuguese presence in East Africa’, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. Special Issue: Indian Ocean Trajectories, vol. 4, nos. 3-4, 2 pp. 179-203.
J. Jackson-Eade (2018b) ‘The slave-interpreter system in the fifteenth century Atlantic World’, Global Histories: A Student Journal, vol. 4, no.2. http://global histories.com, (accessed 15 December 2019).
Since 2018: Member of the review board for the Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies journal.
