Melina Teubner studied Latin American History, History and Portuguese Literature at the University of Cologne. Between 2014 and 2018 she was a research fellow of the a.r.t.e.s.-Graduate School for the Humanities at the University of Cologne. Her thesis Die „zweite Sklaverei ernähren“ Sklavenschiffsköche und Straßenverkäuferinnen im Südatlantik (1800-1870), examines how laborers who were involved in the food sector, such as slave ship cooks and food vending women, contributed to the infrastructure of the 19th century transatlantic slave trade to Brazil. The doctoral-thesis was granted with the Offermann-Hergarten Prize (Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Cologne) and the dissertation prize of the German Labour History Association. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the History Department of the University of Bern. Currently she is on leave as she has a two-year mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in order to do research in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay