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Paulina L. Alberto is a historian specializing in Afro-Latin American lives, thought, and politics following the aftermath of slavery, particularly in Brazil and Argentina. Her work explores the intersections of ideas about race and nation in Latin America, with a focus on how Afro-Latin Americans have shaped and contested the region's ideologies of racial inclusiveness and ongoing struggles for recognition and equality. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, Alberto taught in the Departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Her teaching has included courses on Latin American history, comparative race, racial ideologies, and racial narratives in Brazil, Argentina, and Afro-Latin America, as well as borderlands history and the philosophy of history.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).