Rutgers Affiliate Faculty

Shanna Jean-Baptiste

Shanna Jean-Baptiste

Information: Assistant Professor in French studies; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Haitian literature and culture; Francophone Afrofuturism

Yessenia Barragan

Yessenia Barragan

Information: Assistant Professor in History; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Afro-Latin America and African Diaspora, Colombia and Americas, slavery and emancipation

Anica Bowe

Anica Bowe

Information: Associate Professor of Science Education; Rutgers University, Newark; Research partnerships with Caribbean Ministries/Departments of Education, Critiquing M&E practices, English-speaking Caribbean region

Nicole Burrowes

Nicole Burrowes

Information: Assistant Professor in History; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; African Diaspora; Modern Caribbean and African American History

Kim Butler

Kim Butler

Information: Associate Professor in Africana Studies; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Blacks in Brazil, Black diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jason Cortés

Jason Cortés

Information: Associate Professor in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, and American Studies; Rutgers University, Newark; Caribbean literature, US Latina/o literature, Contemporary Latin American literature and culture, Gender Studies, and Critical Theory

Carlos Decena

Carlos Decena

Information: Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Cultural studies of the Americas and gender and sexuality

Zaire Dinzey-Flores

Zaire Dinzey-Flores

Information: Associate Professor in Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Sociology; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Urban space, community life and social inequality in a comparative Caribbean-U.S. framework

Belinda Edmondson

Belinda Edmondson

Information: Distinguished Professor in English and Africana Studies; Rutgers University, Newark; Caribbean literary history, Caribbean vernacular tradition

Tatiana Flores

Tatiana Flores

Information: Professor in Art History and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Latin American and Caribbean art and visual studies

Marisa Fuentes

Marisa Fuentes

Information: Associate Professor in Women and Gender Studies and History; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Race, gender and sexuality in the 18th century urban Atlantic

Christopher Iannini

Christopher Iannini

Information: Professor in English; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; 18th century circum-Caribbean

Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Information: Associate Professor in Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Rutgers University, Newark; Latin American literature; Latin American film; archipelago; Cuba; adaptations

Renee Larrier

Renee Larrier

Information: Professor Emerita in French; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; French-language literatures in the Caribbean and Africe, Women writers

Laura Lomas

Laura Lomas

Information: Professor in English and American Studies; Affiliate, Women and Gender Studies; Rutgers University, Newark; Latina/o and Caribbean literature, culture and literary history, translation and transcultural studies

Kathleen López

Kathleen López

Information: Associate Professor in Latino & Caribbean Studies & History; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Asians in Latin America and Caribbean, Race and Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora
Caribbean societies, race and ethnicity in the Americas, International Migration

Carter Mathes

Carter Mathes

Information: Associate Professor in English; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Anglophone Caribbean, African American, and Black Diaspora, literary and sound studies

Anjali Nerlekar

Anjali Nerlekar

Information: Associate Professor in African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Anglophone South Asian diaspora, Trinidad, literary studies

Imani Owens

Imani Owens

Information: Assistant Professor in English; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Caribbean literature and performance, anti-imperial politics, translation, experimental aesthetics

Kevon Rhiney

Kevon Rhiney

Information: Associate Professor in Geography; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Global change, rural agrarian livelihoods, biopolitics, political ecology, environmental justice, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region

Michelle Ann Stephens

Michelle Ann Stephens

Information: Professor in English and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies & Director of the Institute for Global Racial Justice; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Psychoanalysis, race, Caribbean being, insularity, the archipelagic, black feminist epistemology

Camilla Stevens

Camilla Stevens

Information: Professor in Spanish and Portuguese and Latino and Caribbean Studies; Rutgers, New Brunswick; Caribbean Literature and Latin(o) American Theater and Performance Studies

Nelson Maldonado Torres

Nelson Maldonado Torres

Information: Associate Professor in Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Caribbean intellectual thought, de-colonial ethics and epistemologies

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