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Dr. Reena Goldthree is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a past Fulbright fellow at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. She studies the social, political, and intellectual history of modern Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the author of Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, The American Historian, and Radical Teacher. She is the co-editor of a special issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies on gender and anti-colonialism in the interwar Caribbean (December 2018). She has also published peer-reviewed essays in New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018), Caribbean Military Encounters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Teaching American Studies (University of Kansas Press, 2021), and Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diasporas (University of Illinois Press, 2010).

Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the American Historical Association, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Ford Foundation, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Mellon Foundation, Mustard Seed Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright.

Recent Publications

Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2025).

Editor, “Gender and Anti-colonialism in the Interwar Caribbean,” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Issue 12 (2018), https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/december2018/ [co-edited with Natanya Duncan]

“Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the New Negro Renaissance in Harlem,” in New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018), 41-58.

“New Directions in Caribbean History,”The American Historian 16 (May 2018): 34-39.

“Writing War and Empire: Poetry, Patriotism, and Public Claims-Making in the British Caribbean,” in Caribbean Military Encounters, ed. Shalini Puri and Lara Putnam (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 49-69.

“‘A Greater Enterprise than the Panama Canal’: Migrant Labor and Military Recruitment in the World War I-Era Circum-Caribbean,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Special Issue: Labor and Empire in the Americas, Vol. 13, no. 3-4 (2016): 57-82.

“‘Vive La France!’: Afro-Caribbean Soldiers and Interracial Intimacies on the Western Front, 1915-19,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 7, no. 3 (2016): doi:10.1353/cch.2016.0040.

“Teaching #BlackLivesMatter and Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching a Movement Unfolding,” Radical Teacher, Vol. 106 (2016): 20-28 [co-authored with Aimee Bahng].

“Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism,” in Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diasporas, ed. Percy C. Hintzen, Jean Muteba Rahier, and Felipe Smith (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 152-73.

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Expertise by Geography

Caribbean, Latin America

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Gender, Migration & Immigration, Military, Politics, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, World War I