Contributors

Jessica Adams is an associate professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is the author of Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Post-slavery Plantation (2007) and a coeditor of several volumes, including (with Michael P. Bibler and Cécile Accilien) Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South (2007) and (with Don E. Walicek) Guantánamo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond (2018). Her essays and short stories have appeared in a variety of books and journals. From 2023 to 2024, she served as editor of Caribbean Studies, a journal published by the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of African diaspora literatures and the chair of the Department of Literature and Writing at Howard University, and the H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and a professor of Africana studies and literatures in English emerita at Cornell University. She is the author of Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994); Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008); Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (2013); and Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power (2022).J. Brent Crosson is a sociocultural anthropologist of religion, science, and politics who teaches at the University of Texas, Austin. His research has focused on contestations over the limits of legal power, science, race, and religion in the Americas. His first book, Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of the Religion of Trinidad (2020), won the 2021 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion and was shortlisted for the Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the best book in Africana religions. His current book project, “The Caribbean Origins of Climate Change Mitigation,” focuses on climate change, religion, race, and conceptions of energy.Raúl Fernández is a professor emeritus in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination (2002) and From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz (2006). More recently, he published “Music, Blackness, and Black Identity in Cuba” in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (2019) and “Latin Jazz and Salsa,” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (2023).Max Gruber is a curatorial assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. He has contributed to several ICA exhibitions, including Tau Lewis: Spirit Level (2024–25), Charles Atlas: About Time (2024–25), Sara Cwynar: Alphabet (2025), and An Indigenous Present (2025–26). Before joining the ICA, he contributed to the exhibition and accompanying publication for Humane Ecology: Eight Positions (2023) at the Clark Art Institute. His research and criticism have focused on contemporary global and Latin American art, photography, visual culture, social practice, and environmental art. He holds an MA in the history of art from Williams College.Jocelyne Guilbault is a professor emerita of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1980, she has done extensive fieldwork in the French Creole– and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean on both traditional and popular music. Her intellectual projects are deeply informed by the distinctive history of the West Indies, where colonial legacies of slavery and racism have loomed large in all arenas of musical discourse and practice. By focusing on creative agency she examines a multitude of ways that musicians, their audiences, and music industry workers not only confront and resist power but also enact and deploy it in various domains. She is the author of Zouk: World Music in the West Indies (1993) and Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics (2007), and the coauthor (with Roy Cape) of Roy Cape: A Lifetime on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand (2014). She cofounded the interdisciplinary e-journal Music Research Annual, which features articles exploring the current state of scholarship on a key topic within a discipline or interdisciplinary juncture to chart ways forward to new research.Anasa Hicks is the Timothy Gannon Associate Professor of Caribbean History at Florida State University. She is the author of Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution (2022). Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the McKnight Foundation.Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Since 1997, she has been involved in the arts, Caribbean feminist movement-building, and writing on Indo-Caribbean feminisms. She is coeditor (with Lisa Outar) of the collection Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (2016) and “Indo-Caribbean Feminisms: Charting Crossings in Geography, Discourse, and Politics,” a special issue of Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (2012). Her blog, Diary of a Mothering Worker, has been published as a national newspaper column since 2012, and she has published writing in PREE, the Stabroek News, Global Voices, and the Conversation. She received the national Medal for the Development of Women (Gold) in 2022 and has been using jouvay to experiment with postindenture Caribbean praxes of memorialization.Elizabeth Jackson is a retired senior lecturer in literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She holds a BA from Smith College and a PhD from the University of London. Her research interests include issues of gender and cultural identity in literature, and she is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing (2010); Muslim Indian Women Writing in English (2017); and Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature (2022).Ryan Cecil Jobson is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD in African American studies and anthropology from Yale University. His research and teaching engage questions of energy and extractivism, states and sovereignty, climate and crisis, race and capital in the Caribbean and the Americas. He is the author of The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago (2024). He is currently at work on two subsequent manuscripts—“C. L. R. James and the Question of Power,” an intellectual biography of the Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James, and a collection of essays on anthropological theory and method in an era of climate extinction. Jobson serves on the editorial committee of Small Axe and is the coeditor-in-chief of Transforming Anthropology.Kamala Kempadoo is a professor emerita of social science, social and political thought, and gender, feminist, and women's studies at York University in Toronto. Her expertise includes Caribbean, Black, and transnational feminisms; Black radical thought; and sex worker and critical antitrafficking studies. She has published extensively, including Global Sex Workers: Rights Resistance and Redefinition (coedited with Jo Doezema, 1998); Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labour (2004); Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality (coedited with Halimah DeShong, 2021); and White Supremacy, Racism, and the Coloniality of Anti-trafficking (coedited with Elena Shih, 2023). She is the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Scientific Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Studies Association.Rhoda Reddock is a professor emerita of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has published extensively on radical Caribbean social and feminist thought, Caribbean sociology, social and feminist history, Caribbean masculinities, and critical development studies, for which she has received numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is currently an executive member of the International Sociological Association (2018–27). Her recent publications include Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities (2021), coedited with Encarnación Guttierez-Rodriguez.Chelsea Schields is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of the award-winning Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (2023) and is a coeditor (with Dagmar Herzog) of The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (2021). She is currently working on a history of electrification, debt, and climate crisis in the Caribbean and a global study of sex, reproductive labor, and fossil fuels.Shoshanna Weinberger (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and is now a Newark-based artist whose work explores her Afro-Caribbean American lineage through abstraction. She has lived and worked in Newark since 2006 and holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Newark Museum of Art, and PES Futures, New York City. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, and she teaches as an adjunct professor at Rutgers University–Newark. See www.shoshanna.info.