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Social Sciences Division
Latin American & Latino Studies
Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate
Crown College Faculty Wing
213
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
Bree Booth is a PhD candidate in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, originally from Lake County, IL. Bree received their B.A. in Africana Studies (self-designed) from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. Via a comparative approach across cases, their dissertation analyzes how early-modern criminal records from Spain and Colombia produced narratives about race, gender, and often sexuality. In response, Bree puts the cases into conversation with poetry, plays, and fiction to create a counter-narrative to the ones suggested by the cases. As a result, the dissertation expands the perspectives on how enslaved people of African descent attained desire and intimacy and how religion and the law subsequently mediated such encounters.
Black queer/feminist theories, Latina/e feminisms, race/class/gender/sexuality and empire, the black Atlantic, transatlantic slave trade, the creation/curation of archives
Instructor Experience:
- Spiritual Revelations: Afro and Indigenous Perspectives on Death and Nature
Teaching Assistant Experience:
- American Revolution
- Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latino Studies
- Cultural Theory in the Americas
- Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
- Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice
- Race and Mobility
- Social Science Analytics
- Unfree Migrations
UC-MRPI "Routes to Enslavement" Grant (2023)
LALS HSI-DDI Summer Publishing Institute (2023)
Lionel Cantu Memorial Award (2022)
LALS Qualifying Exams Fellowship (Winter 2022)
UCSC-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (Spring/Summer 2021)
Tri-Alpha First Generation Honor Society (2019)
Muhlenberg College Dean of Academic Life Summer Research Grant Recipient (Summer 2018)
Sedehi Diversity Project Student Director (2017)
Sedehi Diversity Project Ensemble Member (2016)
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