Alicia Monroe

Alicia Monroe is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies. She holds a B.A. in History and Spanish from North Carolina Central University, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in History from Emory University.

Her research focuses on Afro-Atlantic visual and material culture, race in the Iberian-Atlantic world, urban slavery, emancipation, popular Catholicism, and African diasporic religious practices. Her current project examines Afro-Brazilian confraternity members' activities in São Paulo during the 1830s–1888, analyzing how they used church and state spaces to assert civic belonging and social status. This work is supported by the J. William Fulbright Fellowship and the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery.

Her publications include contributions to Crossings and Encounters: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World (2020) and the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017). Her research bridges historical analysis with transnational perspectives on slavery, religion, and social movements.

Dr. Monroe’s work highlights the agency of marginalized communities in shaping religious and civic identities, offering critical insights into race, power, and emancipation in the Americas.