Kaysha Corinealdi

Kaysha Corinealdi is an interdisciplinary historian, author, and educator who specializes in twentieth century histories of empire, migration, feminism, and Afro-diasporic activism in the Americas. She is an Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean and Hemispheric Transnationalisms in the Dept. of Latino & Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Her book Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press, 2022), centers the activism of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants as they navigated practices and policies of anti-Blackness, xenophobia, denationalization, and white supremacy in Panama and the United States. She is currently working on a digital project on Black women leaders in the Americas, in addition to a speculative biography on Black women internationalists in Panama. Her writing can also be found in Perspectivas Afro, Radical History Review, Public Books, the American Historical Review, Social Text, the Washington Post, the Global South, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, among other publications. Corinealdi is also actively engaged in public scholarship as a researcher, editor, and contributor through her work with museums, research foundations, magazines, blogs, and podcasts. She has served as keynote speaker nationally and internationally and presented her work before the Organization of American States, the Electoral Tribunal of Panama and a host of universities, professional associations, and community organizations.