Dr. Anne Eller

Biography

Anne Eller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, specializing in the history of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. She received her degree in history from New York University, where her dissertation was awarded the Dean's Prize for an outstanding dissertation in the humanities for the 2011-2012 academic year. Her book, 'Dream Together', examines the reoccupation of the Dominican Republic by Spain in 1861 and the subsequent popular anti-colonial movement, highlighting the collective emancipation struggles in the Caribbean. She has actively participated in colloquia at prominent venues such as the Dominican National Archives and Philadelphia’s Taller Puertorriqueño Digital Library, contributing to the online exhibit 'Haiti: Island Luminous'. Her current research focuses on the political struggles for emancipation and citizenship within the broader hemispheric context of the nineteenth century Caribbean. At Yale, she teaches courses that cover modern colonial Latin American and Caribbean history, Caribbean political thought, comparative colonialisms, and the African Diaspora.

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