Guadalupe García specializes in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the author of Beyond the Walled City: Colonia Exclusion in Havana, (University of California Press 2016) and co-editor of Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance (Roman & Littlefield International 2016). Her research has examined the intersections of colonialism, empire, and urban space in Havana and has been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies. Her current work explores the use of digital humanities to consider the ways in which space, scale, and map projections can be used to counter the logic of the archive and expand our contemporary understanding of cities.
Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez
Nausheen Ishaque did her PhD in English literary studies at the International Islamic University, in Malaysia. Currently, she teaches at The University of Lahore in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her areas of interest and specialization include feminism and postcolonialism in relation to religion.
Drake Logan is a scholar-activist and PhD Candidate at The City University of New York, The Graduate Center. He holds an interdisciplinary Master’s from The New School for Social Research. He is currently working on dissertation research focusing on US toxic violence in the Middle East and Hawai’i.
Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor of American Studies and the Director of the US Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has published widely in the fields of Afro-diasporic, gentrification, and spatial studies. She is the author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017) and co-editor with Deborah Vargas and Larry LaFountain Stokes, of Keywords in Latina/o Studies (NYU Press, 2018). Her next project examines the politics of gentrification, archival spaces, dissonant discourses, and spatial inquiry.
M.W. Amarasiri de Silva is a cultural and medical anthropologist (Ph.D. UConn). His research has focused on culture, social change and health and illness in Sri Lanka.
Lorrin Thomas is an associate professor and chair of the history department at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and, with Aldo Lauria Santiago, of the forthcoming book Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights (Routledge, 2018).
Vanessa Wijngaarden has done extensive research investigating human-animal interactions and cultural tourism, especially in Maasailand. She aims to contribute to innovative theoretical, methodological and epistemological debates in anthropology and tourism studies. In addition she is an ethnographic filmmaker and professional ATLAS.ti trainer.
