Faculty by Research Specialization
The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is known for its innovative research and exemplary scholarship. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of their respective fields, covering a wide variety of geographic, temporal, and thematic fields of study. The areas of specialization listed here are by no means an exhaustive list of our scholastic interests. Rather, they highlight the diverse and often overlapping ideas and approaches we explore within our teaching and research.
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies
- Phone
- Fax 831-459-1925
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 540 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Spring 2024 Tues 2:30-3:30 pm or by appt. in Zoom
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- 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
- 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
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.
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
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.
