Dr. Anne Eller

Biography

Anne Eller is an associate professor specializing in Latin American and Caribbean history. She received her degree in history focusing on the African Diaspora in Latin America from New York University, where her dissertation earned the Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities for the academic year 2011-2012. As a Fulbright-Hays scholar, her work has been recognized through various research and writing fellowships. Her published book, Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, Fight Caribbean Freedom, examines the reoccupation of the Dominican Republic by Spain in 1861 and the ensuing anti-colonial movements, underscoring the conflicts between Haitians and Dominicans in the nineteenth century. The book received several awards, including an Honorable Mention for the Isis Duarte Book Prize from the Latin American Studies Association and the Samuel Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication at Yale in 2018. Currently, Eller's research delves into political struggles of emancipation and popular politics in the greater Caribbean during the nineteenth century. She teaches various courses related to colonial and modern Latin American and Caribbean history, Caribbean political thought, imperialism, and the African Diaspora at Yale.

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