Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Faculty

A Cuban- born scholar, Sosa-Cabanas’ research probes the intersection between scientific racism and cultural production in the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States. He is currently editing a book manuscript that draws on the use of postcolonial theories, literary criticism, and visual culture, to investigate literary and visual representations of racism and other forms of exclusion in Cuba. Sosa-Cabanas is also interested in digital scholarship and looks at the intersections of divergent Afro identities within diasporic communities in the United States. He explores how the different identities are negotiated and postulated in fictional narratives, anthropological studies, and the visual arts. This research explores Afro-Caribbean diasporas in New York, New Jersey and Miami; and the discourses of racial representation they produced in north America during the second half of the 20th century. Sosa-Cabanas has published numerous studies on race, hybridity, and the global imaginings of Caribbean culture. His research can be found in the journals Revista Iberoamericana, Cuban Studies, and Decimonónica, among others. Before coming to Rutgers, Sosa-Cabanas taught classes in New York City, Havana, Miami, and Charleston.