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Yveline Alexis

Yveline Alexis

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Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College and Conservatory
Previously a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies at Rutgers University
History of the Caribbean, the Americas, and African Diaspora;
resistance, Agency, and Political Acts; memory Studies and oral history of silenced and ignored minority groups
Jessica Swanston Baker

Jessica Swanston Baker

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Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Chicago
Previously a postdoctoral fellow in Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University
Tempo and aesthetics, coloniality, decolonization, and race/gender and respectability.
Margarita M. Castromán Soto

Margarita M. Castromán Soto

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Assistant Professor in English
Rice University
20/21C African American, Latinx, and Caribbean Literature; archive theory, digital culture, and critical race studies
Ronald Cummings

Ronald Cummings

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Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University
Previously a Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Caribbean Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University
Caribbean Literature, Marronage, Race, Queerness, Citizenship and Sovereignty
Tania del Mar López Marrero

Tania del Mar López Marrero

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Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Coastal Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Human-environment interactions, natural hazard’s vulnerability and adaptive capacity, community resilience, ecosystems services, Caribbean, mixed methods, participatory research techniques, cartography

Carlos Fernández

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Director of The Center for Latino Arts and Culture
popular religious practice, performance, festival, traditional and popular music, poetics and politics of song and revolutionary movements in Central America and the Caribbean
Yomaira Figueroa

Yomaira Figueroa

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Associate Professor in Literary Studies; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Race and Ethnic Studies; Global and Diasporic Studies
Michigan State University
Marlene Gaynair

Marlene Gaynair

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Assistant Professor of Department of History
Washington State University
20th century, cultural history, social history, digital history, immigration, citizenship, identity formation, diasporas, Black Atlantic, urban history
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan

Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan

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Independent Scholar
Previously a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University
Female same-sex desire, Gender and sexuality in Hinduism, "Queer" politics and activism, Globalisation of sexuality, Identity formation
Laurie Lambert

Laurie Lambert

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Associate Professor at Fordham University
Previously a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Caribbean Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Caribbean Revolution and Black Radicalism, African Diasporic Literature and Cultural History, Literatures of U.S. Empire, Postcolonial Theory, Political Trauma
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel

Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel

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Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies
University of Miami
Comparative Archipelago Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcoloniality and Decoloniality, Diasporas
Tami Navarro

Tami Navarro

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Associate Director of Barnard Center for Research on Women
Previously a Previously a postdoctoral fellow in Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University
Neoliberalism, Capital, Gender and Labor, Development, Identity Formation, Globalization/Transnationalism, Race/Racialization and Ethnicity, and Caribbean Studies
Julio Nazario

Julio Nazario

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Assistant Dean II, coordinates Honors Colloquia, outreach, co-curricular and global programs, for the SAS Honors Program
Philosophy and has read widely in the field and earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Queens College (CUNY) and a MFA in the Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

Larisa Pérez Flores

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Visiting Scholar in CCS, Fall 2014. Graduate Students, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)
Diaspora and transnational studies, migration and immigration, literary studies, cultural studies, black aesthetics, critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, subaltern studies, critical feminist discourses, colonial and postcolonial studies, decoloniality, critical epistemology, social movements and revolution, insularity. Came to Rutgers to conduct research on her thesis project “West Indian Diaspora, Intersectionality and Policies of Membership. Writings and Identities in a Transnational Context.”
Tashima Thomas

Tashima Thomas

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Assistant Professor in Art History
Southern Methodist University
African Diaspora, Food Pathways, Blue Humanities