Meet Dr. Erika Edwards – History Department’s new Associate Professor of African Diaspora
Meet Dr. Erika Edwards – History Department’s new Associate Professor of African Diaspora
Dr. Erika D. Edwards is an Associate Professor of African Diaspora History. She received her PhD from Florida International University in Atlantic History with concentrations in Latin America and Pre-colonial Atlantic Africa. She is the author of the award-winning book Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic, which is a gendered analysis of black erasure and the construction of race in Argentina. Edwards's research advocates for a re-learning of Argentina's black past and the origins of anti-blackness. She is currently working on a comparative study of the Free Womb Act, or Gradual Abolition, in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires, Argentina. This work focuses on the politicization of black women’s bodies during the transition from slavery to freedom. Edwards has been interviewed and consulted by NPR, The Atlanta Black Star, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, The World Bank, The New York Times, National Geographic, and La Voz del Interior, an Argentine newspaper. She has provided various talks to institutions and organizations in Europe, Latin America and the United States. She teaches courses in African Diaspora, Latin American History, Black Women’s history at the graduate and undergraduate level.