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Yessenia Barragan

Yessenia Barragan

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

Anica Bowe

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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

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

Kim Butler

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Associate Professor in Africana Studies 
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Blacks in Brazil, Black diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kaysha Corinealdi

Kaysha Corinealdi

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Associate Professor in Latino and Caribbean Studies
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Jason Cortés

Jason Cortés

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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

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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

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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

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Distinguished Professor in English and Africana Studies
Rutgers University, Newark
Caribbean literary history, Caribbean vernacular tradition
Carlos Fernández

Carlos Fernández

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Director of The Center for Latino Arts and Culture
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Popular religious practice and traditional music of Central America
Tatiana Flores

Tatiana Flores

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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

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Associate Professor in Women and Gender Studies and History
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Race, gender and sexuality in the 18th century urban Atlantic
Dario Hernán Vasquez Padilla

Dario Hernán Vasquez Padilla

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ISGRJ Postdoctoral Fellow
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Racial state in Latin America, the sociology of race and racism, and historical reparations.
Antonio Hernández Matos

Antonio Hernández Matos

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Lecturer
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Construction of subjectivities/representations in a consumer society: the relationship among fashion, modernity, gender, sexuality, and consumption
Christopher Iannini

Christopher Iannini

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Professor in English
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
18th century circum-Caribbean
Shanna Jean-Baptiste

Shanna Jean-Baptiste

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Assistant Professor in French studies
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Haitian literature and culture; Francophone Afrofuturism
Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Elena Lahr-Vivaz

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

Renee Larrier

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Professor Emerita in French
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
French-language literatures in the Caribbean and Africe, Women writers
Laura Lomas

Laura Lomas

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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

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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

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Associate Professor in English
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Anglophone Caribbean, African American, and Black Diaspora, literary and sound studies
Anjali Nerlekar

Anjali Nerlekar

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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

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

Sandy Placido

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Assistant Professor, History
Rutgers University, Newark
The interrelated histories of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States; histories of leftist and anti-imperialist movements
Kevon Rhiney

Kevon Rhiney

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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

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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

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Professor in Spanish and Portuguese and Latino and Caribbean Studies
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Caribbean Literature and Latin(o) American Theater and Performance Studies
Hilit Surowitz-Israel

Hilit Surowitz-Israel

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Assistant Professor
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
Diaspora Theory; Caribbean Jewish History; Religion in the Early Modern Atlantic World