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This is a novel that takes place primarily in 1947 – 1948—the immediate postwar period—in a fictional British Caribbean island named St. Francis. St. Francis, while a distinct fictional space, is strongly based off the island I grew up...
This dissertation resists the tendency to focus on metropolitan patterns of consumption of major export goods like sugar and tea in order to account for the laboring bodies producing these colonial commodities, which scholars such as...
Clergy members, intellectuals, educators, newspapermen, military personnel, and politicians worked to gain rights for free people of color and to end slavery in revolutionary Saint-Domingue. These contributions have been largely...
Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad closely examines Caribbean women's prose fiction published from 1959 to 2011. This project illustrates the power of the diasporic voice. This study explores how flight serves as a...
"‘Our Bonaparte’: Republicanism, Religion, and Paranoia in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, 1789-1830," examines how American politicians used the idea of Napoleon Bonaparte to reflect (or distort) contemporary political issues in the...
This dissertation examines a series of cycles painted between 1760 and 1778 for the sanctuary of San Dionisio in Higüey, Hispaniola, which feature miracles performed by the Virgin of Altagracia, to identify intersections between Marian...
A story about two people in love pulled in different directions by their personal and aesthetic beliefs, their loyalties to adopted nationalities. They deal with the complications of love in the age of Trump.
This dissertation examines José Campeche (1751-1809), a prolific artist of African descent who was born and lived his entire life in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Campeche created hundreds of works over the course of his career, as he...
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