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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.

• Caribbean History
• Atlantic World History
• Slavery and Abolition
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Ricarda Hammer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work bridges colonialism, postcolonialism, empire, and race with a focus on the Caribbean as a site of global historical transformation. Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Co-leader of the Anticolonial Lab (with Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz and Tianna Paschel) Former Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Research Interests: Anticolonial Politics Imperial Legacies Racial Capitalism Caribbean Studies Radical Democracy Black Atlantic Thought Article Trends: Ricarda's recent publications emphasize the intersections of colonial history, racial capitalism, and radical anticolonial theory. Her work increasingly incorporates Du Boisian frameworks and examines the erasure of Caribbean revolutionary imaginaries from European political genealogies. Labs & Teams: At Berkeley, Ricarda co-leads the Anticolonial Lab, which investigates global anticolonial solidarity movements with special attention to the Caribbean and Bay Area resistance networks.

• Anticolonial Politics
• Empire
• Citizenship
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Dr. Wendy Wong serves as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage program within Temple University's College of Liberal Arts. Her academic focus centers on U.S. History, particularly the intersections of foreign relations, print media, and slavery in Early America. Education Ph.D. in History Research Focus Dr. Wong's scholarship critically examines Early American diplomatic history through the lens of print culture and transnational connections. Her work reveals how foreign relations shaped national identity during the Revolutionary and Early Republic eras, with special emphasis on Haitian-American interactions and the role of media in political discourse. Current projects explore the Embargo Act of 1807 and John Adams' diplomatic legacy. Publication Trends Her recent publications demonstrate sustained engagement with U.S. foreign policy formation, particularly Haiti's influence on early American statecraft. Contributions to reference works like the SHAFR Guide and Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia highlight her expertise in diplomatic history and urban cultural institutions. Awards No scientific awards were documented in the source material. Professional Activities Dr. Wong serves as editor for the Revolution to Civil War chapter in the SHAFR Guide Online and consulted for the American Philosophical Society's Revolutionary City digital-history project. She teaches Intellectual Heritage I: The Good Life and Intellectual Heritage II: The Common Good, though specific student advising details were not provided. Research Infrastructure No dedicated laboratories or research teams were mentioned in the available documentation.

• U.S. History
• Early American History
• American Foreign Relations
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Ashli White serves as Professor and Chair of the History Department within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. Her academic leadership focuses on revolutionary Atlantic history with particular expertise in material culture studies. Her research centers on the material dimensions of revolutionary movements across the Atlantic World, examining how objects like ceramics, furniture, garments, maps, and political emblems transmitted revolutionary ideals. White's work reveals how enslaved and free populations, women and men, across social strata engaged with revolutionary politics through tangible objects. Her scholarship demonstrates how material culture served as a dynamic medium for expressing political convictions, contesting power structures, and negotiating revolutionary change during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. White's publications reveal consistent thematic focus on the circulation of revolutionary objects and symbols throughout the Atlantic World. Her work demonstrates how material culture functioned as a critical vector for transmitting revolutionary ideals across geographic and social boundaries, with particular attention to the Haitian Revolution's transformative impact. The research shows a methodological commitment to interdisciplinary analysis connecting physical artifacts with political history. White actively contributes to academic discourse through book reviews in premier historical journals including The American Historical Review and The William and Mary Quarterly , engaging with scholarship on imperial history, Caribbean studies, and revolutionary movements. As department chair, she oversees historical research and pedagogy while maintaining an active scholarly profile. Her collaborative work on cartographic exhibitions demonstrates engagement with public history initiatives and interdisciplinary projects examining Caribbean representation.

• Revolutionary Material Culture
• Atlantic World History
• Haitian Revolution Studies
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Ashli C White is a Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences. Her academic work focuses on the revolutionary era in the Atlantic World, with particular expertise in material culture and its relationship to political movements across the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean. Dr. White's research examines how objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse populations into debates over revolutionary ideals. She investigates how ceramics, furniture, garments, accessories, prints, maps, and public amusements held political meaning for enslaved and free people, women and men, and individuals across the socioeconomic spectrum. Her scholarship reveals how material culture served as a medium through which people realized their varied visions of revolutionary change. Her recent monograph, 'Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World' (2023), has received significant scholarly attention for its innovative approach to understanding revolutionary movements through material objects rather than solely through texts. The book demonstrates how revolutionary things, as they circulated throughout the Atlantic, brought people into visceral, multiple, and provocative contact with transformative political movements.

• Atlantic World History
• Revolutionary Era
• Material Culture
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Angela Naimou is an Associate Professor of English at Clemson University’s College of Arts and Humanities, where she teaches literatures of the Middle East and North Africa, postcolonial and world literatures, American literatures of race/ethnicity/migration, and world literature. She serves as Editor of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development and has held editorial roles at Contemporary Literature and College Literature . Her research bridges literary form, legal theory, and political movements, with a focus on how aesthetics interrogate legal personhood's fictions. Ph.D., English, Cornell University M.A., English, Cornell University B.A., English, University of Michigan Her scholarship engages anti-colonial/postcolonial theory, race/diaspora/migration studies, law and literature intersections, and world literature in translation. She explores how legal fictions—from the 19th-century maritime law to modern refugee policy—shape narratives of exclusion and survival. Recent publications analyze legal precedent’s role in global fiction, refugee temporalities, and war’s banalization in cultural discourse. Her work critiques liberal legal frameworks and death-bound biopolitical paradigms, advocating for decolonizing methodologies that prioritize marginalized voices. ASAP Book Prize (2015) for Salvage Work MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize Honorable Mention (2015) for Salvage Work At Clemson, Naimou collaborates on the Every Campus a Refuge initiative, integrating refugee resettlement advocacy with academic research. She is currently studying contemporary Arabic literature and refugee narratives to expand her analysis of global border regimes and humanitarian practices.

• Literatures in English since 1900
• Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Theory
• Studies of Race, Diaspora, and Migration
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Crystal Eddins serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh's Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences. Her academic work centers on historical analysis of race, gender, and resistance within the African Diaspora, with particular emphasis on revolutionary movements and structural oppression. Her research interests include: Historical Sociology of Slavery and Resistance Racial Capitalism and Black Social Movements Gender Studies and Reproductive Justice The Haitian Revolution and Black Internationalism Memory Politics of Civil Rights Movements She investigates how enslaved communities employed marronage, ritual practices, and collective action to challenge oppressive systems, especially focusing on Black women's experiences. Analysis of her recent publications reveals three dominant trends: (1) the Haitian Revolution as foundational to Black revolutionary consciousness across the Atlantic World, (2) intersections of racial capitalism with gendered oppression in reproductive justice and land dispossession contexts, and (3) political transformations of historical memory regarding civil rights struggles. Her work consistently centers diasporic resistance while connecting historical patterns to contemporary social justice issues. While no specific scientific awards are documented in the source material, Dr. Eddins' extensive publication record in high-impact journals demonstrates significant scholarly contribution. Information regarding student advising, grant funding, or laboratory affiliations was not provided in the available texts.

• Historical Sociology
• Race and Ethnicity
• Gender Studies
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Sarah J. Townsend is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the College of the Liberal Arts. She holds a PhD from New York University and a BA from the University of Iowa. Her research integrates Marxist theory, political ecology, and performance studies to explore intersections between culture and capitalism in Latin America and beyond. Education: PhD in Spanish & Portuguese (NYU), BA in Spanish (University of Iowa) Her current projects include Opera in the Amazon: Culture, Capital, and the Global Jungle , analyzing the Teatro Amazonas opera house’s role in rubber-boom era capitalism, and Rio-mar, Mare internum , examining transnational connections between the Amazon and Mediterranean regions. She has held prestigious fellowships, including the ACLS Burkhardt Residential Fellowship (2021–2022). Research interests span Amazonian studies, avant-garde theater, sound studies, and critical race theory. Notable publications include The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil (2018), winner of multiple awards, and co-edited volumes like Stages of Conflict (2008). Awards: Modern Drama Outstanding Article Prize (2018), ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship (2020) Academic service includes organizing the Hemispheric Americas lecture series and leading the Redesigning Modernities grant project. Teaching focuses on Latin American performance, modernisms, and cultural ecology, with courses in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

• Amazonia Studies
• Political Ecology
• Marxist Theory
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Nathan Gorelick is an Assistant Professor in the English Department and First-Year Experience program at Barnard College, specializing in British/Continental literature, Enlightenment philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Previously an Associate Professor at Utah Valley University, he directed their London Study Abroad Program and received awards including the Dean’s Scholarship Award. His research investigates intersections of literature, psychoanalysis, and ideology critique. Major works include The Unwritten Enlightenment (2024) on literary resistance to Enlightenment ideologies, and ongoing projects on colonial ruination and psychedelic-Freudian relations. Gorelick has published extensively on ecological psychology, Islamophobia, and revolutionary politics. His articles span literary theory, colonial critique, and psychoanalysis, frequently examining unconscious structures in political and historical contexts. Recent works analyze psychedelic neoliberalism (2022), end-of-world psychoanalysis (2021), and Arab Spring revolutions (2019). Awards include multiple Engaged Learning grants. Gorelick trained in Lacanian psychoanalysis at Gifric (Quebec) and is a Candidate at Pulsion Institute. He serves on the MLA Executive Council for Psychology and Literature.

• Literary Criticism
• Psychoanalysis
• Enlightenment Philosophy
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Marlene Daut is a Professor at Yale University specializing in Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Her work centers on the Haitian Revolution, Black Atlantic humanism, and racial politics in global media. Her research spans the literary and intellectual history of the Caribbean, with a focus on Haiti. She has authored several influential books including Tropics of Haiti (2015), Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017), Awakening the Ashes (2023), and the forthcoming The First and Last King of Haiti (2025). As a public intellectual, her commentary appears in The New Yorker , The New York Times , and The Nation . Daut actively bridges academic and public discourse through digital scholarship, co-creating H-Net Commons' H-Haiti platform and curating specialized resources like lagazetteroyale.com (early Haitian print culture) and haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com (bibliography of Haitian Revolution fictions). She serves as series editor for New World Studies at UVA Press and co-edits Public Books ' Global Black History and Theory section.

• Caribbean Literary Studies
• Haitian Revolution
• African American Literary History
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Dr. Dilek Huseyinzadegan is an Associate Professor at Emory University's Department of Philosophy. She specializes in Kantian political theory, postcolonial critique, and feminist philosophy. Her research bridges 17th-18th century Atlantic thought with decolonial and continental theories. She currently serves as Philosophy Advisor and co-editor of major translation series including Cambridge University Press' Turkish translations of intellectual biographies. Education: PhD in Women's and Gender Studies from DePaul University (2012) Awards: 2022-2023 Fox Center Senior Fellow, 2016 Emory Research Grant, 2015 Campus Life Service Award Her work interrogates liberal political traditions through Black radical Kantianism, re-examining historical narratives like the Haitian Revolution. Recent projects include critiques of Adorno/Horkheimer's dialectical materialism and Kant's nonideal political theories. She actively publishes in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly , Epoché , and Kantian Review . Her 2019 monograph Kant's Nonideal Theory of Politics reinterprets Kant's state theory through nonideal philosophical frameworks. Current research explores grief as a philosophical construct in radical critiques of Western canons. Labs/Teams: Co-leads Emory's Critical Theory Working Group and collaborates with global Kant scholars through her editorial roles. Active in transnational academic networks via DAAD and Fulbright affiliations.

• Political Philosophy
• History of Philosophy (17-18th Century)
• Continental Theory
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Paul Cheney is the Sorin and Imran Siddiqui Professor of European History, Fundamentals, and the College at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on early modern France, its colonial empire, and the intersections of political economy, Enlightenment thought, and global capitalism. He holds a PhD from Columbia University (2002) and has taught at institutions including Columbia University and Queen’s University of Belfast. Cheney is a Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and has held visiting positions at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His education includes a PhD in History from Columbia University (2002) and prior studies in political economy at the New School for Social Research (MA 1998). His research explores how modern political and social forms emerged within traditional societies, particularly in old regime France and its colonies. Research interests include: French history, the Enlightenment, French Revolution, Atlantic world history, political thought, and early modern capitalism. His major works include *Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization in the French Monarchy* (2010) and *Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue* (2017), translated into French in 2022. The latter examines a single plantation in Saint-Domingue to explore colonial capitalism and slavery. Recent publications analyze Montesquieu’s political philosophy, the global dimensions of the French Revolution, and debates on capitalism and slavery. His work frequently bridges intellectual, economic, and social history methodologies. Awards include the 2018 Gilbert Chinard Prize for *Cul de Sac*. Cheney has organized conferences on political economy in the Enlightenment era and collaborated with scholars in Paris on colonial plantation economies. He teaches courses such as *The French Revolution*, *Atlantic Worlds*, and *Political Economy and the Invention of Society*.

• French history
• Enlightenment
• French Revolution
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Dr. Fabienne Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Romance Languages at the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon. She specializes in Early European Romanticism, Chateaubriand studies, and the intersection of French Enlightenment with colonial and postcolonial narratives. Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University (2001) Maîtrise, English, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail (1989) Her research explores prose poetry , bande dessinées , and blue humanities , with a focus on 18th-19th century French literature’s engagement with classical reception, revolutionary ideologies, and spatial theory. Recent works examine Homeric influences in Enlightenment France and Gustave Doré’s visual rhetoric. Notable publications include her 2009/2017 monograph Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment and analyses of Chateaubriand’s Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage . She also contributes to translation studies, notably co-translating Mário Pinto de Andrade’s decolonization theories (2024). Her scholarship bridges literary form with socio-political contexts, emphasizing gendered perspectives , spatial semiotics , and transnational artistic dialogues .

• Early European romanticism
• Chateaubriand
• European Enlightenment
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Jeremy Matthew Glick is a Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, School of Arts and Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY). His research spans African Diaspora and Caribbean Literature, Modern & Contemporary Drama, and Theories of Total War, People's War, and Insurgency in literary form. His recent projects include the forthcoming book Coriolanus/Lumumba: An Essay on Adaptation and Alignment and a study on the dialectic of Total War, People's War, and Insurgency in John Milton's Paradise Lost , Goethe's Faust , and Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow . His scholarship appears in journals like Boundary 2 , Crisis and Critique , and Women & Performance , as well as edited collections such as New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka and Partisan Universalism . Glick received the Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize for his 2016 monograph The Black Radical Tragic , which examines 20th-century performances of the Haitian Revolution as sites for political thinking. His editorial leadership of Situations: A Journal of the Radical Imagination underscores his commitment to progressive thought.

• African Diaspora
• Caribbean Literature
• Modern & Contemporary Drama
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Susan Gillman is a Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in race and race-relations in the United States, the Americas, and beyond. Her scholarly work approaches national literatures and cultures from a 'worlded' perspective developed by the cluster in World Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSC. Her research interests span American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Critical Race Theory, Translation Studies, and History of Slavery. Gillman's work frequently examines the intersections of race, identity, and cultural production, with a particular focus on the nineteenth century. Her publications demonstrate a consistent engagement with the themes of racial classification, identity performance, and transnational connections. Her scholarly output shows a trajectory from early work on Mark Twain's engagement with racial identity to more recent explorations of hemispheric connections, archipelagic theory, and comparative approaches to American studies. Gillman has received recognition for her contributions to the field through numerous publications in prestigious journals and presses. Her work has appeared in American Literary History, Caribbean Quarterly, and various edited collections focused on American studies, hemispheric studies, and literary theory. She has contributed significantly to the fields of Mark Twain studies, race theory, and comparative American literature through both monographs and edited collections. Her scholarship consistently challenges conventional boundaries in American literary studies, advocating for more expansive, transnational approaches to understanding American cultural production.

• American Literature
• Literature of the Americas
• Critical Race Theory
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