Rutgers Affiliate Faculty

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
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
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 Buter

Kim Buter

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

Jason Cortés

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Assistant 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
Tatiana Flores

Tatiana Flores

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Associate 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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Assistant 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

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Associate Professor in English
Rutgers University, New Brunswick 
18th century circum-Caribbean
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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Associate 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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Assistant 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
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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Associate Professor in Latino and Caribbean Studies and Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers - New Brunswick 
French, Hispanic, and Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Performance Studies
Nelson Maldonado Torres

Nelson Maldonado Torres

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