Asst Prof @VanderbiltCLACX helping build Caribbean Studies @VanderbiltU. Book: THE BLACK ROYALISTS || Under Contract with @Harvard_Press. Former Asylum Officer.
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6 Jun 2024
Despite everything happening in the world, I'm happy to announce that this fall, I'll join the Vanderbilt University faculty full-time as an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Caribbean Studies at @VanderbiltCLACX- where I will help develop Caribbean Studies and center Haiti!
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Jun 11
Trump shows up loss
Wu Tang shows up win
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Apr 20
The ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative ($38 billion to convert commercial warehouses into a network of massive detention centers) is not being built primarily by GEO Group and CoreCivic. ICE is turning to a crop of relatively untested contractors. A look at who. 🧵
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This summer! Starting w/ C.L.R. James' Beyond a Boundary and sky's the limit after that! @vucommodores @VanderbiltCLACX
Vanderbilt students: New summer school course to be offered by Dr. Jesus Ruiz on "Sport & Culture in the Caribbean"
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18 May 2025
Coach @bballbreakdown agreed
Caruso’s defense was outstanding, but it wld help if the point man could shoot or get a clean entry pass into Jokic. All credit to OKC but i can’t believe Denver’s coach didn’t adjust 2 space and get the S.Antonio style hockey assist from the middle
18 May 2025
Guarding Jokic with Caruso isn't supposed to work, and yet...
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26 Feb 2025
Still surreal. Been grappling with these ideas and concepts for well over a decade. My article, "Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion is out now w/ Slavery & Abolition. Open access! tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.…
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19 Feb 2025
A collaborative effort between @VanderbiltCLACX at @VanderbiltU , the @smithsonian Folklife and Cultural Heritage Center, @MTSU, and other institutions, InDigital is the only conference of its kind in the United States.
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6 Jan 2025
American Historical Association Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose "Scholasticide" in Gaza democracynow.org/2025/1/6/ah…
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11 Dec 2024
So proud of my brother! Represent
11 Dec 2024
Late post! This summer I transitioned from coaching to admin! Walking away from coaching was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do as a professional. However, admin has always been a goal of mine and now I get to fulfill the role of AP and AD at the middle school I attended…
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27 Nov 2024
Still teaching land of open graves, can’t wait to include soldiers and kings in my courses!
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19 Nov 2024
Cool job alert: Assistant Professor in African Diaspora/Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latin American History in the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.
h-net.org/jobs/job_display.p…
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18 Nov 2024
Got one of these:
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Going to slowly make my way over there. Vamos.
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Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities invite applications for the Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program (CHPP).
apply.interfolio.com/159013
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1 Nov 2024
.@ProPublica's reporting on maternal health under abortion bans continues.
Read this investigation w @lizziepresser on the case of a pregnant teenager who died after she was repeatedly sent home from Texas hospitals while suffering a miscarriage.
propublica.org/article/nevae…
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Hop on Zoom with NYU’s Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora on Thursday, Oct. 25!
Watch/listen to Dr. Monique Bedasse moderate a discussion, “An Age of Black Revolution: New Direction,” with historians Drs. Crystal Eddins (@CrystalNEddins) and Vincent Brown!
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16 Oct 2024
Honored to witness and speak about the incredible work of @macfound fellow Magdalena Campos-Pons' exhibition. Overarching themes of my talk- "Worlds Interwoven: Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Birth of the Modern Era"- will center on slavery, diaspora, and forced migration.
15 Oct 2024
📅 Join us this Thursday, October 17, 6:30 p.m. for a gallery talk with Dr. Jesús G. Ruiz, assistant professor of Caribbean studies at Vanderbilt University, to explore María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold. Ruiz’s talk will dive deeper into the artwork in the exhibition.
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16 Oct 2024
Here is the link for Nashville friends and/or those in Nashville: fristartmuseum.org/event/gal…
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Chloeeeee! Grande hermana ❤️❤️
27 Sep 2024
Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is coming soon!
- FLYER: You can pre-order with 20% discount using this code: SFBE2024 cambridge.org/es/universityp… 🧵/4
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4 Oct 2024
‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US | Ayana J. Legros | @guardian
Laborers from the Caribbean nation pick berries and process Thanksgiving turkeys across rural America
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