Jennifer Baez received her PhD in art history from Florida State University and specializes in the art and visual culture of colonial Latin America and the African diaspora. She teaches courses at FSU on the history of African art. Her dissertation explores miracle making and collective memory in eighteenth-century Hispaniola.
Greg Beckett is an associate professor of anthropology at Western University, Ontario. He has written extensively on Haitian politics, society, and history, with a focus on the lived experience of crisis and disaster among residents of Port-au-Prince. He is the author of There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince (2019).
Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–98) was a leading figure in the nineteenth-century struggle for Caribbean sovereignty. Born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, to a wealthy Afro-descended landowner father from Hispaniola and a local White Puerto Rican mother, at the age...