Dr. Lorgia García Peña

Biography

Lorgia García Peña, from the Effron Center for the Study of America and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies, specializes in race, colonialism, and Afro-Latinx studies. She started her appointment at Princeton University on July 1, following her tenure as the Mellon Professor of Studies of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University in 2021. Before that, García Peña was a faculty member at Harvard University, where she served as the Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, focusing on History and Literature from 2017 to 2021, and as an assistant professor from 2013 to 2017. She also taught at the University of Georgia from 2010 to 2013. García Peña is the author of several notable works including 'Community Rebellion: Syllabus Surviving Academia Woman of Color' (Haymarket, 2022), 'Translating Blackness: Migrations Latinx Colonialities Global Perspective' (Duke University Press, 2022), and 'The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, Archives, Contradiction' (Duke University Press, 2016). Her contributions to the field have been recognized with various awards, including the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, the 2016 Latino/a Studies Book Award, and the 2016 Isis Duarte Book Prize in Haitian Dominican Studies. In 2021, she was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation.

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