Participant Info
- First Name
- Nancy
- Last Name
- Mirabal
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- nmirabal@umd.edu
- Affiliation
- American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
- Website URL
- amst.umd.edu
- Keywords
- Early afrodiasporic, Latinx, gender, spatial studies, gentrification
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Nancy Raquel Mirabal is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Department, Director of the Latina/o Studies Program and Cofounder and Co PI of the Urban Equity Collaborative at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a trained historian who has published widely in the fields of Afro-diasporic, gentrification and spatial studies. She is a recipient of several grants, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Scholar in Residence Fellow; UC Berkeley, University Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies; SSRC International Migration Postdoctoral Fellow; National Endowment for the Humanities Community Grant and past Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historian.
- Recent Publications
Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017); Co-editor, Keywords for Latina/o Studies (NYU Press, 2018); “Arturo Schomburg and the Precarious Archives of Self.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, (2020): “Geographies of Displacement: Latina/os, Oral History and the Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco’s Mission District.” Public Historian, 31:1 (2009).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Caribbean, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Migration & Immigration, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Urban History, Women
