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Melanie White is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean Studies in the Department of Black Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University, with prior degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (M.A.) and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.). Her research focuses on hemispheric Black feminisms, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latinx art, and the histories, politics, and visual cultures of the Central American Caribbean, particularly the Miskitu Coast. She is an ACLS Fellow and co-founder of The Black Central Americas Project.
Her interdisciplinary work examines Afro-Indigenous women’s anti-colonial resistance through visual culture and political organizing, as detailed in her in-progress book manuscript Sovereign Mosquitia. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, ACLS, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. Publications include contributions to Caribbean Quarterly, Small Axe, and edited volumes on Black feminisms and Latin American studies.
Dr. White serves on the advisory board of Recuerdos de Nicaragua and actively engages in scholarly networks to foster solidarity across Black Central American communities. Her teaching emphasizes decolonial methodologies and the intersection of race, gender, and empire in Caribbean and Latin American contexts.
