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Ileana Rodriguez-Silva is an Associate Professor and Roseman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington-Seattle, affiliated with the Department of History within the College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a B.A. (magna cum laude) in History from the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (1993), followed by two M.A. degrees (Latin American Studies and History) and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004).
Her research focuses on race-making processes in the Americas, post-emancipation racial politics, and comparative colonial arrangements. Notable works include *Silencing Race* (2012), which won the Frank Bonilla Book Award, and contributions to *Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective* (2005). Current projects explore black middle-class formation in Puerto Rico and U.S. imperial dynamics during the Cold War.
Rodríguez-Silva's work appears in *Hispanic American Historical Review*, *NACLA*, and *Modern American History*. She co-edited a 2021 special issue on storytelling in imperial formations. Affiliations include the History department and involvement with Latin American and Caribbean studies programs.
