- African Diaspora in the 19th-Century Caribbean, Latin America, and the Atlantic World
- Comparative Caribbean history (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica)
- Slavery, Freedom, and Revolution in the Caribbean and Afro-Latin America
- Race, Gender, and Migration
- U.S. Afro-Latinx History and Civil Rights
Michele Reid-Vazquez
E. Frederic Morrow Associate Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and Africana Studies
Michele Reid-Vazquez is an Endowed Chair in Race, Racism, and Racial Justice and E. Frederic Morrow Associate Professor with joint appointments in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and Africana Studies. She specializes in the history of slavery, freedom, revolution, and Black mobilities in the 19th-century Caribbean and Afro-Latin America, 20th-century U.S. Afro-Latinx community formation and civil rights, and digital humanities. She also directs the Afrolatinidad Studies Institute, whose projects seek to expand transnational and interdisciplinary research, education, digital humanities, and programming in the global arenas of Afro-Latin American Afro-Latinx studies. She is the author of The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Atlantic World, with articles in journals and edited collections. Her current book project, Black Mobilities in the Age of Revolution, explores the multi-layered mobilities enslaved and free people of color in Jamaica and the Caribbean Atlantic world deployed in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution in their pursuit of freedom and equality. Additional work-in-development examine U.S. Afro-Latinx and civil rights, Afro-Latinx and African American solidarities, and ongoing Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx-focused public digital humanities projects and professional development for scholars.
Her individual research and collaborative activities have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and nearly sixty other grants. In addition, Dr. Reid-Vazquez is the executive producer and host of the Dialogues in Afrolatinidad podcast.
