• PHD Communication Studies, Northwestern University 2005
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 50%-74%
Languages:
• Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Central America, African diaspora, performance studies, black identity
Relevant Experience:
• 2013-2017 Digital Portabelo for Cultural Preservation • 2002-2003 Fulbright Grant (Panama)
Distinctions:
• 2016-2016 Inaugural Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, The Whiting Foundation • 2013-2013 Digital Innovation Lab/Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship • 2013-2013 Ella Foundation Pratt Emerging Artist • 2009-2009 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Junior Faculty Development Award • 2005-2007 Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity • 2002-2003 Fulbright Grant (Panama)
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
6
Relevant Courses Taught:
• Black/African Diaspora Performance
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. 19(1).
• 2016 “Staging Digital Portobelo: Humanities Scholarship, Digital Tools, and Collaboration as Acts of Persistent Translation,” in Public: A Journal of Imagining America 3(2).
• 2016 “Digital Portabelo: Art + Scholarship + Cultural Preservation,” in Collaborative Research Initiative.
• 2015 “When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in 20th Century Panama.
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism Series. Ohio State University Press.
• 2014 “How does it feel to be a problem?”: in Solo/Black/Woman: Performing Global Traditions and Local Interventions, edited by E. P. Johnson and R. Rivera-Servera, pp. 167-84, Northwestern Univ. Press
• 2012 “Blessing the Devil: Dualism, Parody and Double-Consciousness in the Congo Tradition of Portobelo, Panama.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies. San Francisco, CA.
• 2008 “‘¡Los gringos vienen!’ (‘The gringos are coming!’): Female Respectability and the politics of Congo tourist presentations in Portobelo, Panama.” Transforming Anthropology: Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists 16.1 (2008): 20–31.
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