I am a historian of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world. The questions I ask in my research are informed by my study of the interwoven processes of slavery, emancipation, colonialism, and capitalism that produced the modern Atlantic World.
I examine how people of African descent on Colombia’s Caribbean coast made citizenship by demanding rights and belonging in the decades after abolition in the early 1850s.
I am looking at the years between the 1940s and early 1970s to show how Jamaican popular music was the product of cultural nationalism at home and working-class migration abroad.
My future research will be a global history of the shantytown.
Research Interests
- Modern Latin America and the Caribbean
- Slavery, emancipation, race
- Citizenship
- Atlantic world
- Capitalism, nationalism, colonialism, empire
- Transnational/global/world history
- Popular culture
Keywords
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Latin American History
- African Diaspora History
- Citizenship and Belonging
- Gender and Sexuality
- Music
- Race and Ethnicity
- Slavery and Postemancipation
- Social and Revolutionary Movements
Keywords:
- Minority Languages and Cultures Project
