Staff

Managers

Sofia O’Reilly

Sofia O’Reilly initially got involved with the IOWC through the publication of her paper Reproductive Resistance: Abortion, Infanticide, and Agency Among Enslaved Women in Madagascar and the Mascarenes, 17th to 19th Century in the working paper series. Since then, she has worked as a research assistant researching, transcribing, and translating archives from 19th-century Madagascar and the Mascarenes. She now serves as a Project Manager.

Research Assistants

Charles Edouard-Bistodeau

Charles-Edouard Bistodeau is a Bachelor’s student in History and Anthropology at McGill University. His research interests focus on social movements, colonialism and post-colonialism, spirituality, and material culture. He joined the IOWC in 2026 as a Research Assistant, where he is translating An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895, by Distinguished James McGill Professor Gwyn Campbell, into French language.

Debanjan Das

Debanjan Das is currently pursuing his Master’s in History at McGill, with his thesis studying sexual knowledge production in the British Empire. At the IOWC, he is working on collecting data on the 1876-1878 El-Nino event and famines in South Asia, from contemporary newspapers. He is also involved in cataloguing the textual, visual and cartographic holdings of the IOWC.

Jasmine Chen

Roland Ndiadia

Roland Ndiadia is a PhD candidate in History at McGill University. He joined the IOWC in 2026 as a Research Assistant. He is working on human-environment interactions in Indochina from 1750 to the present day.