Rosa Carrasquillo

Helen M. Whall Chair in Race, Gender and Social Justice, Co-Director of Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies

History

Latin American, Latinx, & Caribbean Studies

Africana Studies

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Contact

rcarrasq@holycross.edu

Areas of Expertise

Caribbean and Latin American History; Visual Culture; Black Feminism

Education

Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Biography

Rosa Elena Carrasquillo is the Inaugural Helen M. Whall Chair of Race, Gender and Social Justice and professor of Caribbean and Latin American history at the ��̳, Worcester, MA. Her research agenda includes interdisciplinary pedagogies, visual culture, race and gender relations in Latin America. Her first book looked at peasant political culture, Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, and second edition in paper back, 2008). Her second book is a biography of Afro-Puerto Rican singer Ismael Rivera, titled The People’s Poet: Life and Myth of Ismael Rivera, an Afro-Caribbean Icon. (Caribbean Studies Press, 2014). She was a guest co-editor of a special issue of the Radical History Review in 2022 Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan, with Lorelle Semely and Melina Pappademus. Her last book is ¿Ojos que no ven? Colonialidad y cimarronaje visual en la República Dominicana (Editorial Educación Emergente, 2023).

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