Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleAssociate Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationLatin American & Latino Studies

Web SiteMaria
Teaching

Primary Office LocationHumanities Building 1
540 Humanities 1

Office HoursSpring 2024 Tues 2:30-3:30 pm or by appt. in Zoom

Mail StopHumanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Summary of Expertise

Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Research Interests

Atlantic world, colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba. Her research work is located at the intersections of history and anthropology, global and local history, macro and micro levels. Topics include: slavery and freedom; colonialism; legal, political, popular and religious cultures; social identities; race/ethnicity, gender and class.

Selected Publications

• From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780-1814. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024)
• "Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality," by Esteban Morales Dominguez, Book Review, in HAHR, May 2014, 94 (2).
• "Cuba: The Next Revolution?" Forum on Gates' PBS doc series "Black in LAtin America" in LACES, Vol. 8, No. 1, 83-87, 2013."Cuba: The Next Revolution?" Forum on Gates' PBS doc series "Black in LAtin America" in LACES, Vol. 8, No. 1, 83-87, 2013.
• "To Live as a Pueblo: A Contentious Endeavor," in Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the early modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812, Kathryn McKnight and Leo Garofalo, eds. Hackett Publishing Co., 2009.
• "Mining Women, Royal Slaves: Copper Mining in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780" in Mercier, Laurie and Viskovatoff, Jaclyn G., eds. Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1700-2000. New York: Palgrave, 2006.
• "Writing Royal Slaves into Colonial Studies," in Rethinking the Past, Retrieving the Future/Repensando el pasado, recuperando el futuro, Verónica Salles-Reese, ed. Bogota: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. 2005.
• "Of Life and Freeedom in the (Tropical) Hearth: El Cobre, 1709-1773" Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas, The New Black Studies Series, D. B. Gaspar and D. Clark, eds. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004
• "Beyond Tannenbaum," Law and History Review (LHR), Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004
• The Virgin, the King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book.
• "Cultura política y periodismo popular en el México de principios de siglo: La prensa satírica para obreros" in Posada y la prensa ilustrada: signos de modernización y resistencias. México, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Arte, julio-octubre, 1996, pp. 89-101.
• "The Satirical Penny Press for Workers in Mexico, 1900-1910: A Case in the Politicization of Popular Culture." Journal of Latin American Studies 22 (October 1990), 497-526.