In alphabetical order:

Crystal-Elisa Aldamuy, Undergraduate, Queens College, CUNY
“Islands and Bridges: Afro-Puerto Rican Identity”

Lisa Calvente, Ph.D. Candidate, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Isn’t This My Home Too?!?: Between Latinidad and the Black Diaspora, A Puerto Rican’s Story”

Odette Casamayor Cisneros, Ph.D., Visiting Research Scholar, SUNY Stony Brook
“Lo negro como arma de sobrevivencia ética en la
sociedad cubana actual”

Khamla Dhouti, Assistant Professor, California State University, San Bernardino
“Testing the Colorline: Multi-consciousness and Language in Down these Mean Streets”

Kristie Dorr, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Not-here to Stay: The De-localization of Place in Afro-Peruvian Musical Performance”

Monika Gosin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Diego
“Celia Cruz and the Complexity of Panlatinidad”

Michelle Hay, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“‘I have been black in two countries’: Afro-Cuban Identity in the US”

Kellie Jean Hogue, Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University
“‘Not a Zoot Suit Boy’: Labor and Afro-Latino Identity, 1942-1947”

Vielka Cecilia Hoy, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Y Tu Abuela, Donde Esta?- The Process of Racialization, Ethnicity, and Identity for Black Latinos”

Ayana V. Jackson, Photographer, and Marco Villalobos, Poet
“African By Legacy, Mexican by Birth”

Adjoa Jones de Almeida, Research Assistant, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY
“Unveiling the Mirror: Afro-Brazilian Identity and the Emergence of a Community School Movement”

Bianca Ivette Laureano, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park
“Doing it and Doing it, and Doing it...Well? Does Sexuality Education Do Race?”

Antonio López, Assistant Professor, George Washington University
“Lo negro, lo mulato and Cuban-American Literary History”

Noriko Manabe, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Musical Characterization of Mixed-Blooded Femme Fatales in Cuban Zarzuelas”

Oilda Martinez, M.A., City College of New York, CUNY
“Black and Cuban: the Black Cuban Problem and the Black Cuban’s Problem”

Jameelah Medina, Ph.D. Candidate, Claremont Graduate University
"Afro-Latin Identities: Cutural Schizophrenia and Ethno-Racial Tug-of-Wars"

Susan Mendez, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Riverside
“‘required blood’: Combatting Violence in Loida Maritza Perez’s Geographies of Home”

Judith Mulcahy, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“The Contest for Cuba in the Nineteenth Century African American Imagination”

Tianna Paschel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berekely
“Fighting the Invisible: Racial Politics and Mobilization among
Afro-Colombians”

Anthony Ratcliff, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts
”Shared Cultural Spaces: The Black and Puerto Rican Arts Movements in Chicago, 1960s-1970s"

Petra Raquel Rivera, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Bomba Ideology: Cultural Representations of Race and National Identity in Puerto Rico”

Sonia Robertson, M.A. Candidate, Clark Atlanta University
“The People of Loiza, Puerto Rico and the Legacy of Cimarronaje”

Jonathan Scott, Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“The Demonization of Pan-American Nationalism”

Dorsía Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Puerto Rico
“The Negative Portrayal of Puerto Ricans’ African Heritage in Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon”

Angelina Tallaj, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Drumming for Blackness: Vudu, Palo Music and the Creation of an
African Identity in the Dominican Republic”

Talia Weltman, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University
“La chingada meets el jarocho: (Re)Mapping Afro Identity in Contemporary Mexican Culture”