Experience, EVENTS, & Advocacy
Teaching, Research,
and Administrative Experience
2024:
Chair, Africana Studies, Rutgers University-Newark (Fall-2024)
2017-2020:
Chair, History Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2018-2020:
Steering Committee, Black Studies [initial creator of proposal for African Diaspora minor, and course on African Diasporas]
2011-Present:
Professor, History Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2014-2015:
Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL), Paris III, Paris, France.
2000-2011:
Associate Professor, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2014-2016:
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Mellon Review Board for Completion of Dissertation.
2001-2003:
Director, Latin American Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
1995-1996:
Visiting Scholar, New York University, NY.
2009-2012:
Director, Latin American Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2012:
Co-Organizer, Afro-Latin American and Indigenous section, Latin American Studies 2012 Conference.
2007:
Foreign Correspondent, 2007, Cinema Afrocarioca, Rio de Janeiro (founded by Zózimo BulBul).
2003:
Middlebury Study Abroad Committee (Visited Brazilian universities to establish first Study Abroad programs in Brazil).
1992-2000:
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2020-2021:
Migrations Chair, IMéRA, Institute of Advanced Studies, Marseille, France.
Spring 1996:
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, NY.
Journalism,
Advocacy &
Service
1999-2002:
Consultant Editor, Directory of Minority Leaders (London).
1997:
Consultant Editor for Routledge, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture.
1996-1997:
Member and first provisional secretary, Organization of Africans in the Americas, (Now defunct transnational entity aiming to bring together Afro-Descendants across the Americas, and advocate in the United States on behalf of Afro-Latin Americans).
1999-2002:
Ad Hoc Middlebury College Human Relations Committee (HRC), (Advisory Committee tasked to systematically and comprehensively review the university’s climate on diversity and provide recommendations with a goal to improve the campus climate).
1994-1995:
Guest Editor, The Journal for Afro-Latin American Studies and Literatures (Knoxville, TN).
1994-1996:
Coordinator/Editor, Commission on Afro-Latin America (CALA), an internet listserve dedicated to the Afro-Latin American issues.
1998:
Consultant Editor, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture (Routledge).
1995-1999:
Book Reviewer/Editor, Journal of Third World Studies (Published by the Association of Third World Studies, Americus, Georgia).
1996:
Contributing Editor, No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today. London: Minority Rights.
Digital Projects & Websites
Curator, 2018-2020, African Diasporas in the Atlantic World”
Advisor to Student Blog
“Stefan Zweig and the Americas”
Curator, 2016-Present,
“Stefan Zweig and the Americas”
Project in Development, “Mapping Diaspora and Migration Museums.”