Contributors

Nadia Ellis is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book Territories of the Soul is forthcoming from Duke University Press.Christopher Ian Foster is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Writing Fellow at Queens College. His dissertation project is on twenty-first-century African literature and migration, and he is an organizer for the Postcolonial Studies Group at the Graduate Center.Peter James Hudson teaches in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. His essays have appeared in Small Axe, Radical History Review, Race and Class, and Transition: An International Review, and he is currently completing a manuscript titled “Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873–1933.” He is coediting “Black Canada,” a special issue of the C. L. R. James Journal, and is the editor of the digital history resource “The Public Archive: Black History in Dark Times.”Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is a documentary artist who has completed projects in Kingston and Miami, and extensively in the five boroughs of New York City. She has a degree in film and photography from Hampshire College and is a current MFA candidate in film at Temple University. Her work explores themes of physicality, violence, masculinity, and identity within Caribbean American and urban space and has been featured in Studio Museum's Studio magazine, ARC magazine, BOM-BLOG, and Guernica, among others. She has received grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as well as the National Black Programming Consortium. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, and London.Rivke Jaffe is an associate professor at the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her anthropological research focuses primarily on intersections of the urban and the political. Her recent work has included a research project on crime and citizenship in Kingston, which explored how criminal organizations and public officials share control over urban spaces and populations, and the formulations of citizenship and sovereignty that result from this.Kelly Baker Josephs is an associate professor of English at York College, CUNY. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2013) and the editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform. She also manages the Caribbean Commons.Madhavi Kale is an associate professor of history at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Migration to the Caribbean (1998). Her current research explores gendered productions and habitations of subjecthood and nation in late colonial India through a domestic archive comprising the detritus of one couple's lives contained in the space of the house they built together and unevenly and uneasily shared.Anne S. Macpherson is an associate professor in Latin American and Caribbean history at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. Her book From Colony to Nation: Women's Activism and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912–1982 (2007) won the Association of Caribbean Historians' Elsa Goveia book prize. She is currently researching gender, labor, and politics in Puerto Rico, 1938–40.Melanie J. Newton is an associate professor of history and director of the Caribbean Studies program at the University of Toronto. She is author of The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation (2008) and is currently researching a study of indigeneity in Caribbean history.Tzarina T. Prater is an assistant professor of English in the Department of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. Her areas of specialization are nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature, American literature, the anglophone Caribbean, and gender and cultural studies. She is currently working on several articles and a book project on Jamaican Chinese literary and cultural production.Lara Putnam is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960 (2002) and Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (2013).Rose Réjouis is an associate professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts. She is the author of Veillées pour les mots: Césaire, Chamoiseau, Condé (2004) and is the translator, with Val Vinokur, of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (1997) and Texaco (1997), as well as of Marie Vieux-Chauvet's Love, Anger, Madness (2009). She is currently writing a book about Jewish and Caribbean historiography.Neil Roberts is an associate professor (as of July 2014) of Africana studies and a Faculty Affiliate in Political Science at Williams College. His work has appeared in Caribbean Studies, the C. L. R. James Journal, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Philosophia Africana, Political Theory, Sartre Studies International, and Souls, and he is coeditor of Creolizing Rousseau and the “CAS Working Papers in Africana Studies.” His book Freedom as Marronage is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.Sheena Rose is a Barbados-based artist whose work explores everyday experiences through animation, drawings, performance, installation, and painting. She received her BFA in 2008 and since that time has participated in a number of artist residencies and exhibitions in places as diverse as GreatMore Art studios in Cape Town, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, Art Omi in upstate New York, Tembe Art Studio in Suriname, and Alice Yard in Trinidad. Her videos have been exhibited in the Havana Biennial and in the “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World” exhibition in New York in 2012. She is the founder of “Projects and Space,” a virtual community that supports experimental art projects in new public spaces.Edward Sammons is a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is presently completing his first book, which investigates transformations in how the concept of freedom resonates among residents of a Jamaican town founded as an enterprise of plantation slavery.Matthew J. Smith is a senior lecturer in history at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the author of Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change in Haiti, 1934–1957 (2009). His main research interests include Haitian political and social history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of Haitian migration.Deborah A. Thomas is a professor of anthropology and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004) and Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011), and is coeditor, with Kamari Maxine Clarke, of the volume Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006). She also directed and produced the documentary film Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (2011).Christopher Winks is an associate professor of comparative literature at Queens College, CUNY. A scholar of comparative modernisms, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Latin American literature, he has published numerous reviews and articles, as well as translations from French, German, and Spanish, in journals and anthologies. He is the author of Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature (2009) and is the editor and cotranslator, with Adriana González Mateos, of Los danzantes del tiempo (2011), an anthology of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that was awarded the 2011 Premio de Poesía José Lezama Lima by Casa de las Américas. His anthology of writings by Cuban poet Lorenzo García Vega, Labyrinth, is forthcoming from Junction Press.

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