ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
[UPDATED 2022]
EDUCATION
2021 Ph.D. African American & African Diaspora Studies (D.E. Women, Gender and Sexuality), University of California at Berkeley
2015 M.A. African American studies, University of California at Los Angeles
2009 B.A. American Studies with a minor in Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz
2016. Black Europe Summer School, Amsterdam, Netherlands
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America and the Caribbean; Blackness in Central America; Performances of Race and Nation; African Diaspora Theory; Migration; Black Indigeneity; Digital Humanities; Identity Formations; Black Popular Culture and Representation; Visual Culture; U.S Black Latinx and Caribbean History, Politics, and Social Movements; Black Feminist Thought.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2021 - Present Postdoctoral Research Associate & Lecturer, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies, University of Virginia
2019-2020 Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, Department of African American Studies
2016 - 2021 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California Berkeley, Department of African American Studies
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Marketing Culture: Blackness, Indigeneity and Multicultural Performance”, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal, forthcoming 2022.
PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS
“Caribbean Music,” in African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs (3 Volumes) (2020): 197-201
BOOK REVIEWS
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice and Identity within Puerto Rican Taino Activism by Sherina Feliciano-Santos, forthcoming Spring 2022
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles by Alaí Reyes-Santos in Callaloo 40, no. 3 (2017): 104-106
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“Belizean Independence reminds of the complicated legacy of colonization,” Central American News. September 2020 https://medium.com/@centralamericannews
“Belize reminds Central America to think outside of the box.” Central American News. August 2020 (https://medium.com/@centralamericannews/belize-reminds
IN PROGRESS
(Co-Authored) “Diasporic Intimacies: Garifuna Contributions to Black Identity Discourse in Central American” in Forum for Inter-American Research (fair), forthcoming 2022
Making Community: Digitizing Belizean geographies, Social Memory and the Archive ( Article Manuscript), forthcoming
INVITED LECTURES & TALKS
A Conversation with Dr. Paul Joseph Lopez Oro & Dr. Nicole Ramsey, Istmo y Vos de Penn. The University of Pennsylvania, March 22, 2022
Panelist, Garifuna Ancestral Memory in Diaspora, The Latinx Project. New York University, March 1, 2022
Lecture, “Investigating Belize,” Trans-Territorial Resistance Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, May 28, 2021
Lecture, “Blackness at the Intersections: Black Central American Identity and Diaspora,” Black History Month Speakers Series, South Bronx Community Charter High School via New York University, February 23, 2021
Panelists, “AfroLatinidad: What is it and why it matters,” Afro-Latinx Voices Black History Month Roundtable Series, University of Pennsylvania, February 3, 2021
Moderator, “Writing Black Caribbean Women: A Conversation”, AfroLatinx Voices Series. Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley, October 2020
Panelist, “El Caribe Presente!: Exploration of Caribbean Identities, Cal State Los Angeles, Feb 2020
Keynote, “Complexities of Central American Identity,” Inaugural Central American Student Symposium, San Francisco State University, May 4, 2019
“Identity, Erasure, and Practices of Diaspora in the Belizean Community,” Latin American Studies Program, California State University Los Angeles, May 2, 2019
SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED
Presenter, “Belizean Migration(s), Disaster, and Diasporic Imaginings”, Lessons for Migration Studies: Centering Embodied Experience in Scholarship Panel. Histories of Migration and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean Symposium, Brown University, March 18th 2022
Presenter, “Performing Blackness, Indigeneity and the Belizean Nation”, Performing and Historicizing Blackness Panel. Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity, UC Irvine, May 2019
Presenter, “Capturing the Essence of My People: Rethinking Identity and Culture through Visual Representation in Belize”, Traveling Blackness in the Americas: Obscured Transnational Flows of Race, Culture, Gender and Politics in the African Diaspora Panel. American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2018
Presenter, “Rethinking Culture and Identity through Visual Representation in Belize”, Desire, Art and Diversity Panel. 43rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, June 2018
Presenter, “Between Blackness and Nation: Negotiating Blackness, Identity and Belonging in Afro-Central America” Complicating Blackness in Latin America, the Caribbean and U.S. Afro-Latinidades Panel (Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Working Group)/ 26th Annual St. Clair Drake Research Symposium – UC Berkeley, May 2018
Presenter, “Between Black and Creole: Negotiating Belizean Identity and Belonging through National Commemoration” Neoliberal Blackness: The Political Economies of Folklorization” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora 9th Biennial Conference (ASWAD). November 2017
Presenter, “Interrogating Blackness and Overlapping Diasporas in Afro-Central American First-Generation Communities” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA). April 2017
Presenter, “Land of the Gods: Transnational Radicalism, Garveyite Women and the Colonial State in 20th Century Belize”. Black Feminist Traversals Panel 24th Annual St. Clair Drake Research Symposium, UC Berkeley May 2016
Presenter, “Mek Ah Tell Yuh (Let Me Tell You)”: Blackness as Praxis and Cultural Production in Afro-Costa Rica”. Intersectional Identities Symposium at the University of Texas, San Antonio, April 2016
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS
2021-2023 University of California Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of African American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (Declined)
2020. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2019 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2019 John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies (IIS), UC Berkeley
2018 Institute for International Studies (IIS) Pre-Dissertation Grant, UC Berkeley
2017 Center for Race and Gender Research Grant, UC Berkeley
2016 UC Consortium for Black Studies in California Research Grant, UC Office of the President
2016 Tinker Summer Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies
2016 VèVè Clark Travel Grant, UC Berkeley
2016 Ford Foundation Fellowship (*Honorable Mention)
2015 University of California, Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship
2014 Graduate Dean Fellowship, UCLA
2014 Gold Shield Graduate Fellowship, UCLA
MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS/PODCASTS
“Ines” Episode, Little America. West Indian Cultural Consultant. forthcoming season, June 2022
“The History of Belizean Culture and Migration with Dr. Nicole Ramsey”, Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture Podcast, November 10, 2021
“A Candid Dialogue About Black Women’s Knowledge Production and the Politics of Citation”, Cite Black Women Podcast., June 27, 2021
“Episode 33 – Nicole Ramsey”, Puchica Vos, September 30, 2018
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Department
Spring 2021 Admissions Committee, African American & African Diaspora Studies Department, University of California Berkeley
2017-2018. Graduate Liaison, African American & African Diaspora Studies Department, University of California Berkeley
2015 - 2016 St. Clair Drake Symposium, co-organizer, through the African American Studies Department, University of California Berkeley
University
2019 - 2021 McNair Graduate Tutor, McNair Scholars Program
2017 - 2018 Co-Coordinator of Getting Into Graduate School (GiGS), Office for Graduate Diversity, University of California, Berkeley
2017 - 2021 Center for Race and Gender Student Advisory Board, board member, Center for Race and Gender, University of California Berkeley
National
2017 - 2021 Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, co-founder, funded through the Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND AFFILIATIONS
American Studies Association
Caribbean Studies Association
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
Caribbean Philosophical Association
National Women’s Studies Association