New Books in Caribbean Studies

New Books in Caribbean Studies

Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.
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Latest Episode

I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (18.09.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024) 12.09.2025
  • Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020) 31.08.2025
  • Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 21.08.2025
  • Disco's "Latin Tinge" 19.08.2025
  • Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020) 09.08.2025
  • César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019) 04.08.2025
  • Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025) 30.07.2025
  • Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025) 11.07.2025
  • Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 08.07.2025
  • Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023) 30.06.2025
  • Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025) 25.06.2025
  • Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025) 16.06.2025
  • M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025) 20.05.2025
  • Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) 17.05.2025
  • William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023) 10.05.2025
  • Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024) 24.04.2025
  • Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020) 21.04.2025
  • Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023) 03.04.2025
  • Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 31.03.2025
  • Dariel U. González García, "Dos miradas: Israel and Judaism in Puerto Rico" (2024) 30.03.2025

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