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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Yomaira Figueroa

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Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at CUNY Hunter
Directora of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies

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

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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

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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

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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

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Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at Drew University
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

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Former Assistant Dean for Outreach, Special Initiatives and Assessment in the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Philosophy, Visual Arts

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

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

Torres, Nelson Maldonado

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Caribbean intellectual thought, de-colonial ethics and epistemologies

Nelson Maldonado Torres

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Professor of Philosophy at University of Connecticut
Founding Director of RAICCS
Caribbean intellectual thought, de-colonial ethics and epistemologies