Contributing Authors

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CÉCILE ACCILIEN is the chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and a professor of African and African Diaspora studies at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.LISETTE ACOSTA CORNIEL is an assistant professor of Latin American studies in the Department of Race and Ethnic Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.GISELLE LIZA ANATOL is a professor of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and the outgoing president of the international Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.ELIZABETH ARANDA is a professor of sociology and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. A native of Puerto Rico, she has dedicated herself to documenting the lived experience of migration and to share (im)migrants’ stories through her research and teaching. Her research addresses migrants’ emotional well-being and their adapting to challenges posed by racial and ethnic inequalities and legal status. Email: earanda@usf.eduREBECA BLACKWELL is a sociology PhD candidate at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on the areas of social psychology and social communication. She studies emotions in society, cultural understandings of health, disability, and migration. Some of her previous work includes social issues in Venezuela, her native country, and Peru, her adoptive home for five years. She comes from a background in translation work and linguistic research back in Venezuela. Email: rblackwell@usf.eduSARAH A. CLUNIS is originally from Kingston, Jamaica, and received her PhD in art history in 2006 and a master's in art history in 2000 from the University of Iowa. She is the curator of the African Collections and director of academic partnerships at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, having previously worked as the director of the Xavier University Art Gallery, supervisor of the art collection team, and assistant professor of art history at Xavier University in Louisiana. She specializes in the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora from traditional to contemporary. Clunis has also published in national and international magazines and journals. Her work examines gender, race, and migration in multiple contexts. She is currently the project curator for the Helis Foundation John Scott Center at the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities, developing a permanent exhibition titled Dancing at the Crossroads, an organic development of her professional and scholarly trajectory. Clunis continues to work on multiple projects on the visual culture of Afrofuturism and diversity and inclusion in the arts.SABINE LAMOUR is an international sociologist trained in France and Haiti. Currently, she is completing a research project that explores the role of the evangelical in the political context. Since 2005, she has been working with Haitian women's organizations as a feminist activist and an independent consultant at both urban and rural levels. Since 2017, she has been the national coordinator of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn (SOFA)and has taught courses at l'Université d’État d'Haïti (UEH) since 2012. She is interested in topics such as gender, sexualities, slavery, family dynamics in the Caribbean, and Haiti's political system. In 2018, Lamour copublished Déjouer le Silence: Contre-discours sur les Femmes Haïtiennes and has published articles in Chemins critiques; Women, Gender, and Families of Color; and Revue internationale des études du développement.LAURA LOPEZ MARTINEZ received a bachelor of arts degree from the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia. She also holds a master's in history and literature from the Columbia University. Currently, she is finishing her second year as a PhD student in modern languages at Swansea University, Wales. Her thesis is a comparative study of the works of two Caribbean writers: Edwidge Danticat and Hazel Robinson, through the lens of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. Lopez Martinez's research explores issues such as language and identity, gender, and the relationship between human beings and nature.ALEXANDRIA MILLER is a PhD student in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her research interests include Africana feminisms, Caribbean studies, Black women's intellectual history, and cultural studies.ALESSANDRA ROSA is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology at University of South Florida. As a Puerto Rican, she has dedicated her teaching, research, and service to fostering diversity, equity, and justice. Her research centers on social movements, internet activism, education, Puerto Rican studies, postdisaster migration studies, emotional well-being, and discourse analysis. Email: amrosa1@usf.edu.