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Aisha Finch Afro American Studies and Women's Studies
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Ph.D. in History, New York University 2007
- Best Dissertation Prize, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Dissertation Title: “Insurgency at the Crossroads: Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1841-44”
- Advising Committee: Ada Ferrer (chair), Michael Gomez, Sinclair Thomson, Barbara Krauthamer, Walter Johnson
- General fields of interest: African American and African Diaspora Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Caribbean and Latin American Studies
B.A. in English and Afro-American Studies, Brown University, 1998
- Honors Graduate, Susan Culver Rosenberger Prize for Afro-American Studies
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal 1997
Universidad Acción Pro-Educación y Cultura, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1999
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles July 2008 - present
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California,
Los Angeles, Resident Fellow in the Department of History July 2007- June 2008
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles, July 2007
Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, September 2005 - June 2005
Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, May 2003
Elaine Brody Humanities Fellowship for International Travel, GSAS, May 2003
Lydia Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies, Conference on Latin American History, May 2006
Coca-Cola Research Travel Grant (NYU King Juan Carlos Center) and Tinker Foundation Travel Grant (NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies), June 2001
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
“‘The Consciousness That Has No Name’: Spirit Worlds, Uncanny Temporalities, and the Alternative ‘Legal’ Cosmos in Cuban Slave Communities,” presented to the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Miami, FL, August 2009.
“Gendering the Path toward Freedom: Afro-Cuban Women in the Slave Resistance Movements of 1844,” presented to the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana, August 2009.
“Gendering the Peripheries of Revolution: Rethinking the Paradigms of Slave Insurgency in Cuba,” panel presentation at the Women in Conflict Zones Symposium, UCLA, April, 2009.
“Housing Memory: Carceral Spaces in Cuba’s Plantation Cultures and Urban Landscapes,” presented to the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2009.
“Rethinking Slave Insurgency in Cuba and its Implications for Feminist Research,” presented to the Emerging Epistemologies Workshop, UCLA, February 2009.
“Traitors, Queens, and Amazons: Images of Afro-Cuban Women in the Slave Resistance Movements of 1844,” invited Lecture at UC Riverside, February 2008.
“Making Nation, Making Blackness in Cuba’s Conspiracy of La Escalera,” presented to the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Bridgetown, Barbados, October 2007.
“Cracks in the Mantle: Cuban Slaves Transgressing the Sugar Regime,” presented to the Carceral Studies Working Group Series, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2006.
“The Labor of Cuban Slaves: Building a Resistance Movement, 1843-44,” presented to the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, April 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
“Scandalous Scarcities: Black Slave Women, Plantation Domesticity, and Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Cuba,” Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 2009).
“On the Edges of Freedom: Rituals, Sacred Work, and Rethinking Liberation in Diasporic Slave Insurgencies,” article in progress.
“Slavery in Latin America,” Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina History, D. H. Figueredo, ed., New York: Facts on File, 2010.
Review of Teresa Prados-Torreira, Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Tallahassee: University of Florida Press, 2005, in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Vol. 7, No. 3 (2006).
Review of Cyril Orji. Lamentation: An Immigrant’s Dilemma. Matawan, NJ: Cyril Orji, 1999.
In Transforming Anthropology Vol. 11 no. 1 (2002).
“Not Quite Outcasts: Black Women, Hip Hop, and Neo-Blaxploitation,” AWOL Magazine,
Summer 2002.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
UCLA Women’s Studies Department
WS 185, Women and Gender in the Caribbean, Spring 2009 and Winter 2010
WS 296, Doctoral Roundtable, Fall 2009
UCLA Afro-American Studies Department
AA 270, Survey of Afro-American Research, Fall 2009
AA 291, Introduction to the African Diaspora, Winter 2010
NYU History Department
V57.-0759001, History of the Caribbean, Summer 2004
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
The National Women’s Studies Association
The Caribbean Philosophical Association
The American Historical Association
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
AfroAmérica XXI
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