Department Faculty

"I am a historian of colonial Latin America, but I also have a lively interest in the modern period. My areas of specialization are slavery and the African Diaspora in the Americas. I received my degree in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin, where I studied with Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Aline Helg, and Susan Deans-Smith. I am currently working on the manuscript of A Different Diaspora: Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Costa Rica, 1502-1750. What interests me is how conditions in Africa as well as in the Americas shaped the ways in which Africans forcibly adapted to and responded to slavery. I have published articles and book chapters on ethnicity and the slave trade, the Yoruba in Costa Rica, and the abolition of slavery in Colombia."