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Aisha Finch is an Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Emory University, currently on leave for the 2024-2025 academic year. Her research focuses on Cuban and comparative Atlantic slavery, transnational Black feminism, and Black political movements in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the U.S. She holds the Harriet Tubman Book Prize for her monograph Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba, which reinterprets 19th-century enslaved rebellions through gendered lenses.
Her work bridges historical analysis with feminist theory, emphasizing how Black women's practices of freedom challenged colonialism and slavery. Ongoing projects explore Black women's sacred knowledge in the Caribbean and U.S. South, and Global Hispanophone Black feminist thought. Finch co-edited Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation, which traces Afro-Cuban freedom struggles from 1812-1912.
- Key Awards: Harriet Tubman Book Prize (2016), Fredrick Douglass Book Prize Finalist (2016)
- Recent Work: Co-editing Palimpsest journal's special issue on Black Feminism and Care (2022)
- Teaching: Courses on Black diasporic histories, gender studies, and decolonial methodologies
Her research methodologies emphasize archival recuperation, transnational frameworks, and intersectional analyses of race, gender, and colonialism. Finch's writing has appeared in Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of Women's History, and Women and Social Movements in the United States.
