Princeton University professor, Lorgia García-Peña, gives a presentation. This program will be in person..
Registration is not required.
Lorgia García Peña, of the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies, specializes in race and colonialism and Afro-Latinx studies.
Previously, she was the Mellon Professor in Studies of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University. She was also a faculty member at Harvard, where she served as assistant professor from 2013-17 and as the Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature from 2017-21. She was an assistant professor at the University of Georgia from 2010-13.
García Peñais the author of “Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color," “Translating Blackness: Migrations of Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective” and “The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction."
She is the winner of the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, the 2016 Latino/a Studies Book Award, and the 2016 Isis Duarte Book Prize in Haitian and Dominican Studies. She was named a 2021 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation.
García Peña earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Rutgers University and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
