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Ernesto Bassi Arevalo is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He holds affiliations with the Africana Studies and Research Center, Romance Studies, and Society for the Humanities departments.
His research focuses on historical geography, particularly how geographic regions and cultural identities form through the circulation of goods, people, news, and ideas. Bassi explores these themes from a Latin American and Caribbean perspective, especially examining the Caribbean coast of Colombia. His work spans comparative and transnational history, empires and colonialism, and historical geography.
Bassi's publications reveal consistent engagement with Caribbean and Atlantic world history, examining how sailors created trans-imperial spaces and how various groups experienced these spaces. His work demonstrates a trajectory toward increasingly sophisticated analyses of geopolitical imagination and regional formation in the early modern period.
- Race and Ethnicity
- Comparative and Transnational History
- Empires and Colonialism
- Historical Geography
As a Colombian scholar who came to the United States on a student visa, Bassi brings personal perspective to his teaching about international students' contributions to U.S. universities and society. He teaches students to understand the creation of patriotic narratives and identify the perspectives these narratives seek to erase.
