New York University

Marie Cruz Soto is a postdoctoral fellow under the auspices of the NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity. Her research and teaching interests center on the cultural history of the peoples of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. She is specifically interested in issues of identity negotiations, (post)memory and other historical narrations, nationalism, community formations, transnational networks, gender, race, and imperialism. Cruz Soto has taught courses on U.S. and Latin American history in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. At Gallatin, she teaches the course Feminism, Empire, and the Postcolonial World, which explores feminist solidarities and postcolonial experiences. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript delving into the five-century struggle of peoples to inhabit the Caribbean island of Vieques and of empires to control it.