Yvonne Fabella

Yvonne Fabella serves as Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies and History Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences, where she guides curriculum development and student academic pathways.

Her educational credentials include:

• B.A. in History and French from American University
• M.A. in History from University of Maryland at Baltimore County
• Ph.D. in History from State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook

Dr. Fabella's research centers on colonial Caribbean societies with rigorous analysis of race formation, gender dynamics, and revolutionary movements in the French Atlantic world. Her work examines how enslaved and free people of color navigated colonial hierarchies through legal challenges, cultural practices, and resistance strategies, particularly in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue.

Her publications reveal consistent thematic focus on creolization processes, whiteness construction, and citizenship debates that preceded the Haitian Revolution, demonstrating interdisciplinary methodology bridging social, cultural, and political history frameworks.

As an educator, she teaches specialized courses including HIST 233 (Pirates, Rebels and Runaways: Unofficial Histories of the Colonial Caribbean; Race, Slavery and Revolution in the French Atlantic World) and HIST 248 (The Haitian Revolution), emphasizing marginalized perspectives in Caribbean historiography.