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Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Latin American & Latino Studies

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Colonialism
Slavery
African Diaspora
Atlantic World
Latin American and Latino Studies
History
Race
Law and Policy
Personal and Social Identities
Spanish

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Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
540 Humanities 1

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Spring 2024 Tues 2:30-3:30 pm or by appt. in Zoom

Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Summary of Expertise

Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Research Interests

Atlantic world, colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba. Her research work is located at the intersections of history and anthropology, global and local history, macro and micro levels. Topics include: slavery and freedom; colonialism; legal, political, popular and religious cultures; social identities; race/ethnicity, gender and class.

Selected Publications

• From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780-1814. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024)
• "Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality," by Esteban Morales Dominguez, Book Review, in HAHR, May 2014, 94 (2).
• "Cuba: The Next Revolution?" Forum on Gates' PBS doc series "Black in LAtin America" in LACES, Vol. 8, No. 1, 83-87, 2013."Cuba: The Next Revolution?" Forum on Gates' PBS doc series "Black in LAtin America" in LACES, Vol. 8, No. 1, 83-87, 2013.
• "To Live as a Pueblo: A Contentious Endeavor," in Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the early modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812, Kathryn McKnight and Leo Garofalo, eds. Hackett Publishing Co., 2009.
• "Mining Women, Royal Slaves: Copper Mining in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780" in Mercier, Laurie and Viskovatoff, Jaclyn G., eds. Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1700-2000. New York: Palgrave, 2006.
• "Writing Royal Slaves into Colonial Studies," in Rethinking the Past, Retrieving the Future/Repensando el pasado, recuperando el futuro, Verónica Salles-Reese, ed. Bogota: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. 2005.
• "Of Life and Freeedom in the (Tropical) Hearth: El Cobre, 1709-1773" Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas, The New Black Studies Series, D. B. Gaspar and D. Clark, eds. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004
• "Beyond Tannenbaum," Law and History Review (LHR), Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004
• The Virgin, the King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book.
• "Cultura política y periodismo popular en el México de principios de siglo: La prensa satírica para obreros" in Posada y la prensa ilustrada: signos de modernización y resistencias. México, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Arte, julio-octubre, 1996, pp. 89-101.
• "The Satirical Penny Press for Workers in Mexico, 1900-1910: A Case in the Politicization of Popular Culture." Journal of Latin American Studies 22 (October 1990), 497-526.

Courses HIS 11A, Latin America: Colonial Period
HIS 130, History of Modern Cuba (20th century)
HIS 131, Women in Colonial Latin America
HIS 132, History of the Caribbean: Colonial Period
HIS 190A, Slavery and Race in Latin America
HIS 190B, Race and the Nation in Latin America