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1 MELINA A. PAPPADEMOS Home Office 166 Overbrook Road University of Connecticut West Hartford, CT History Department, Wood Hall Glenbrook Road Storrs, CT Employment 2012 History Department and Institute for African American Studies. Associate Professor with tenure. University of Connecticut 2004 History Department and Institute for African American Studies. Assistant Professor (tenure track). University of Connecticut Education 2004 New York University. Doctor of Philosophy History of the African Diaspora, Cuba, Caribbean, and Latin America (Advisor: Dr. Ada Ferrer) 1996 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Master of Arts (History of African American Culture) 1985 Cornell University. Bachelor of Science Publications Books Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic (Envisioning Cuba series, Louis A. Pérez, editor) (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011) Murdo J. Macleod Best Book Prize Southern Historical Association-Latin American and Caribbean Section 2013 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Best Book Award (Honorable Mention) Caribbean Studies Association

2 2 Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters "Political Changüí': Race, Political Culture, and Black Civic Activism in the Early Cuban Republic" [reprint]. In Rewriting the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries, Robert Adams Jr., ed. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (April 2013). "'Political Changüí': Race, Political Culture, and Black Civic Activism in the Early Cuban Republic." In Rewriting the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America, Special Issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (January 2012): "From Cabildos to Continuadora Societies: Political Community in the Black Cuban Imaginary." Negritud: Revista de Estudios Afrolatino-americanos, Vol. II, no. 2 (Winter 2009): "Romancing the Stone: Academe s Illusive Template for African Diaspora Studies." In Issue: Journal of Opinion, Conceptualizing the African Diaspora, 35, no. 2 (1996): Editorships Senior Section Editor ("Cuba and Puerto Rico"), Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (DCALAB), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin K. Knight, General Editors, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming, 2014). Melina Pappademos, Amy Chazkel, and Karen Sotiropoulos, eds. Haitian Lives, Global Perspectives. Radical History Review, Vol. 2013, Num. 115 (January 2013). Melina Pappademos, Michelle Stephens, and Erica Ball, eds. Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora. Special Issue of Radical History Review, 103 (January 2009) Best Special Issue (Honorable Mention) Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Book Reviews Lisa Yun, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008), in Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 91, no. 4 (November 2011). Manuel Barcia, The Great Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2012), in The American Historical Review 118 (2013): Other Publications "Raza, cultura política y activism cívico negro en los inicios de la República de Cuba." In Presencia de África en el Caribe, las Antillas y Estado Unidos, Natasha Despotovic, ed. (February 2013). Published conference proceedings.

3 3 "Presencia de África en el Caribe, las Antillas y Estados Unidos." July 2011, FUNGLODE-GFDD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. "Editors' Introduction," co-authored with Sotiropoulos and Chazkel, Radical History Review, Vol. 2013, Num. 115 (January 2013): 1-9. "Editors' Introduction," co-authored with Stephens and Ball, Radical History Review 103 (Winter 2009): 1-5. "Race: Afro-Cubanía in the Republic, 1907 to 1959." In Cuba: People, History, and Culture, Alan West-Duran, Louis A. Pérez, Nena Torres, César Salgado, et al editors, Scribner's/Gale Publishers, "Afrocuba." In The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, Carol Boyce Davies, et al, editors, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc, "Juan Gualberto Gómez." In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, Colin Palmer, et al, editors, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, Work in Progress "Between Blackness and the Body Politic: Race, Culture, Metaphor, and the Political Sphere in Cuba, 1933 to 1959." (book project). Distinctions and Awards 2012 University of Connecticut. Large Faculty Research Grant, Research Foundation University of Connecticut. Small Faculty Research Grant, Research Foundation National Academy of Sciences. Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Connecticut. Humanities Institute Faculty Residential Fellow (declined) University of Connecticut. Small Faculty Research Grant, Research Foundation University of Connecticut. Large Faculty Research Grant, Research Foundation Harvard University. Non-Resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Wesleyan University. Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship Harvard University. W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Sheila Biddle Research Fellow.

4 National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar for Researchers and College Teachers. Seminar Title: "Visions of Freedom for the Americas: José Martí and Eugenio María de Hostos in Nineteenth-Century New York City." Eugenio María de Hostos College, CCNY, New York, NY University of Connecticut. Research Foundation, Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship National Academy of Sciences. Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship New York University. Prize Teaching Fellow Marquette University. Arnold Mitchem Doctoral Fellow (declined) New York University. Doris Quinn Fellowship United States Department of Education. Fulbright-Hays International Research Fellowship (for research in Cuba) New York University. Dean s Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences New York University. Warren Dean Memorial Fellowship in Latin American History National Academy of Sciences. Ford Foundation Fellowship for Research in Gender/Area Studies New York University. King Juan Carlos II Coca-Cola Travel Grant, New York University Rutgers University. Associate Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis, the Black Atlantic Project New York University. Margaret Brown Fellowship for Women New York University. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Predoctoral Fellowship New York University. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, New York University. Center for Latin American/Caribbean Studies Research Fellowship New York University. Warren Dean Memorial Fellowship in Latin American History University of Illinois. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Travel Research Fellowship International History Honor Society. Phi Alpha Theta, Epsilon Chapter Honor Society. Phi Alpha Phi.

5 Cornell University. Provost's Office, Cornell Tradition Fellow. Public and Invited Lectures 2013 Invited Lecture. "'Los fueros del hogar': Gender, Sex, and the Transgressions of Blackness in Cuban Politics after the 1912 Race War." University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Luncheon Lecture Series. UCONN, Storrs Public Lecture. "Rethinking Black Politics after the Race War of 1912." Program in African Diaspora Studies and Radical Dissent History Series, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY Book Panel. Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic (Envisioning Cuba) (2011). Institute for African American Studies. University of Connecticut, Storrs Public Lecture. "Black Civic Activism and Counter Narratives of Africa in the Early Cuban Republic." Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Connecticut College, New London, CT Public Lecture. "Black Clubs and Counter Narratives of Africa in the Early Cuban Republic." Farmington Valley Chapter of the Links, Inc. Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, CT Keynote Speaker. "Women of Color and the Politics of Visibility." Annual Women of Color Luncheon, sponsored by the UCONN Women s Studies Program and Women s Center. University of Connecticut, Storrs Public Lecture. "Patrons and Partisans: Black Club Activism after the Cuban Revolution of 1933." Institute for African American Studies. University of Connecticut, Storrs Colloquium Speaker. "Race, Diaspora, and Cuban History." Center for the Humanities Colloquium Series, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Public Lecture. "Political Community and the Challenges of Diaspora in Republican Cuba," Center for Humanities Spring Lecture Series, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Public Lecture. "Two Pillars of Black Cuban Activism." W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Fall 2005 Colloquium Series, Harvard University Invited Lecture. "Gender, Race, and Black Radicalism in History," Women s Studies and Africana Studies Programs, in honor of Women s and African American History months. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York.

6 Public Lecture. "Race and Class in Two Afro Cuban Publications: El Boletín Oficial del Club Atenas and La Revista Adelante," Brown Bag Lecture. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. Conference Participation 2013 Panelist. "Rethinking Black Racial Politics in Cuba after the Partido Independiente de Color," "Refashioning Blackness: Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas," Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (WCAAAS) 2013 Symposium, University of Texas at Austin Panelist. "Make it Plain, Make it Public: Thoughts on How to Finish, Shop, and Publish, your Book," Workshop Session on Postdoctoral, Professional Advancement. "Reflecting Forward: Diversifying the Academy to Meet Global Challenge," 2012 Conference of Ford Fellows, Newport Beach, CA Moderator. "Social Hygiene and Public Health in the Early Republic." Current Research in Cuban Studies (History, Sociology, Humanities), Third Annual Workshop, New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Caribbean Institute, New York, NY Presenter. "Rethinking Black Racial Politics in Cuba after the Partido Independiente de Color." Panel titled, "La guerrita del doce: The Impact of the Race War of 1912 in Cuba and Elsewhere in the Spanish Caribbean." 27th Annual Symposium on African American Culture & Philosophy, "Afro-Latin America: Rethinking Identity, Politics, and Culture," African American Studies and Research Center and Latino and Latin American Studies program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Discussant/Comment: "Neither Race, Men nor Tragic Mulatas: Afro-Puerto Ricans and the Imperial Transition, " The Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar, fall Center for the Humanities, City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center, New York Presenter. "Political Changüí: Race and Culture in the Early Cuban Republic." International Conference, "The African Presence in the Caribbean, the Antilles, and the USA." Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Presenter. "Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic." International Conference. Sephis (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) Workshop: "Equity, Justice, Development: People of African Descent in Latin America in Comparative Perspective." Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia Presenter. "Changüí Político: Political Culture and Black Civic Activism in the Early Cuban Republic." Panel titled, "Creating Cuban: Reexamining Constructions of Race in the Cuban Imagination." 125 rd Annual Meeting of American Historical Association, Boston, MA.

7 Presenter. "From Cabildo to Continuadora Societies: Early Republican Community in the Black Cuban Imaginary" Panel titled, "Cultural Politics and Nation-Building in the Americas." African and African Diaspora Studies Workshop. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Presenter. "Black Politics, Anti-discrimination, and Cuba s Revolutionary Transition," Panel titled, "Cuba, Independence, Revolution and the Effects of the Struggle for Change, ," 123rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY Chair. Panel titled, "Literary and Visual Representation of the Passing Phenomenon." The Institute or African American Studies Conference, "The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, & Letters." The University of Connecticut, Storrs Presenter. "Race and Political Culture in the New Cuban Republic." Panel titled, "History and Civil Society." Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies (Cuba Project) International Symposium, "A Changing Cuba in a Changing World," City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York City Co-Chair and Comment. Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians Association Roundtable titled, "Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora." 122 nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C Moderate/Comment. Panel titled, "Cartographies of Citizenship." Symposium on Cuba-USSR and the post-soviet Experience. University of Connecticut, Storrs Presenter. "Color and Clients in Republican Cuba:" XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico Presenter. "Race Men Patrons: Black Clubs and Politics in the Cuban Republic." 3 rd Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Presenter. "Lodged in the Storm: Black Clubs and the Politics of Patronage." New York City Latin American History Workshop, Stony Brook-Manhattan, New York, NY Presenter. "Too Long a Gathering Storm: Black Associations and Federations in the Early Republican Era." Allen Morris Conference on the History of Florida and the Atlantic World, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Presenter. "In Concert with all Modern Societies: Politics and Differences in Black Republican Organizations," African Diaspora Forum, Department of History, New York University, New York, NY Chair. Race, Place, and Nation: The Making and Un-Making of Black Cuban Subjectivities. 5 th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

8 Presenter. "In Concert with all Modern Societies: Politics and Differences in Black Republican Organizations," Fifth CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University, Miami, Florida Presenter. "Of Color and Country: Black Cuban Associational Life and Cultural Difference, 1912 to 1940." African Diaspora Forum, Department of History, New York University Chair. "The Politics of Black Social Organization," XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas Presenter. "Black Consciousness and Black Societies, 1900 to 1915," XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas Presenter. American Historical Association Affiliated Societies Roundtable: Racism and Radicalism in History." American Historical Association, Washington, D.C Presenter. "Black Consciousness, Gender, and the Black Press in 1930's Cuba." Shaping Scholarship Graduate Conference on the History of Women and Gender, New York University. Media Interview. "Writing Cuba's Racial History." UCONN TODAY/CLAS TODAY, May 15, Public Fora Organized 2010 Organizer. "Interdisciplinary Workshop: African Diaspora and Transnationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean." Principal sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Working Group Series. Co-sponsors: Humanities Institute, Institute for African American Studies. Held at CLACS, University of Connecticut, Storrs Organizer. Symposium, "New Perspectives on Race, Politics, and Cultural Agency." Co-sponsors: IAAS, CLACS, Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Department of History, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, the Research Foundation. University of Connecticut, Storrs Organizer. Eric Galm, Assistant Professor, Trinity College. "The Yoruba Connection: Intersections between Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Music and Culture." 2004 Organizer. Soy Cubano, Soy Popular!, Documentary on Cuban Timba music with Director Jennifer Paz. Screening and Q & A.

9 9 Referee Asian Women Black Women, Gender and Families Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Caribbean Studies InTensions Journal Journal of Women's History Latin American Research Review Radical History Review Social Science History Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora Editorial Boards 2012-present 1998-present Co-Chair of the Editorial [board] Collective, Radical History Review (Duke University Press). Member, Editorial [board] Collective, Radical History Review (Duke University Press). Other Professional Experience Faculty Coordinator, Gender and History Visiting Scholars Series. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of History, University of Connecticut Organizer, Interdisciplinary Workshop: African Diaspora and Transnationalism. University of Connecticut. Principal sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Working Group Series. Co-sponsors: Humanities Institute, Institute for African American Studies Instructor. "Race and Politics in Cuba: Under the Colony and in the Republic, Department of History," New York University Instructor. "History of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean," Department of History, New York University Instructor. "Contemporary Latin America," Department of History, New York University Facilitator. "Visual Culture in Havana," Faculty of Arts and Sciences NYU-Havana Summer Study Abroad Program, New York University Assistant to Program Director. Faculty of Arts of Sciences NYU-Havana Summer Study Abroad Program, New York University.

10 Teaching Assistant. "World Cultures: Africa," Morse Academic Plan, New York University Teaching Assistant. "History of the Andes," Depart. of History, New York University Teaching Assistant. "World Cultures: Latin American and the Caribbean," Morse Academic Plan (Core Curriculum), New York University Instructor. "History of Latin America and the Caribbean," New York University 1999 Participant. International Workshop at the Provincial Archive of Cienfuegos, Cuba. Workshop title, "Race, Nation, and Citizenship, " 1999 Researcher, The American Experience series WGBH, Boston. "Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind," Half-Nelson Productions. Conducted research using the personal papers of Marcus Garvey. Prepared compendiums for director and producer based on my research Managing Editor. Radical History Review. New York, NY. Assist editors with layout, articles review, cover design; editing, manuscripts, and graphics; maintain production schedule; organize and plan issues, administrative meetings for Steering and Editorial Collective; manage office finances and promotion; supervise Editorial Assistant Graduate Research Assistant. Research conducted on Jazz history for Dr. Robin Kelley, New York University Graduate Research Assistant. Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture. Research conducted on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Cuban history for Dr. Ada Ferrer. Research for: Ada Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, , University of North Carolina Press, (1999) Co-instructor and Teaching Assistant. "Afro-American Studies 100," Center for Afro-American Studies and Research, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Taught course section as well as collaborated on development of syllabus and reading list Graduate Advisor in the Bridge/Transition Program. University of Illinois, Urbana. Monitored 38 African American and Latino freshmen and sophomores, to insure their academic success and retention. Professional Service 2013 Award Committee. Southern Historical Association Murdo J. Macleod Best Book Prize

11 Panelist. National Academies, Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs, History Panel to adjudicate and award the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, 2013 Ford Fellowship Pre-Doctoral, Dissertation, and Post-Doctoral awards present Steering Committee (ex-oficio). Radical History Review Editorial [Board] Collective 2001-present Member. Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association 2000-present Member. Cuba Section, Latin American Studies Association University Service 2013 Member. Strategic Area Advisory Team (SAAT) on Social Justice. University Academic Vision Committee (UAVC) Advisory and Admissions Committee Member. University of Connecticut Individualized Major and Interdisciplinary Studies, University Scholar Program Affiliate Board Member. University of Connecticut Institute of Latino/a, Caribbean and Latin American Studies (El Instituto) Advisory Board Member. University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI) 2004-present Advisory Board Member. Institute for Africana Studies, UCONN 2006-present Member. Junior Faculty Forum, Humanities Institute 2006 Undergraduate Advisor. Individualized Major Program (IISP) 2005 Member. Latin American and Caribbean Study Abroad Working Group Departmental Service Graduate Studies Advisory Committee Chair's Advisory Committee 2013 Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee U.S. History Search Committee Faculty Coordinator, Gender and History Visiting Scholars Series 2010 Prize Committee Chair s Advisory Committee 2008 Publicity Committee 2008 Prize Committee 2007 Chair, Colloquium and Social Committee 2007 Graduate Advisory Committee 2006 Graduate Admissions Committee 2005 African History Search Committee Doctoral Theses Advisees: 2011 PhD Committee Member, Rebecca Rodriguez 2010-present PhD Committee Member, Katelyn Aguilar 2007-present PhD Committee Member, Brittney Yancy PhD Committee Member, Michael Neagle

12 PhD Committee Chair, Christopher Curry (thesis passed "with distinction") 2008 PhD Committee Member, Michael Hoven PhD Committee Member, Jennifer Heckard Master Theses Advisees: 2010 M.A. Exam Committee, Rebecca Rodriquez, Race, Gender, Nation, and Citizenship M.A. Advisor, Andres Pletch, Black Cubans in the Republican Period 2009 M.A. Exam Committee, Evan Wade, UNIA in Connecticut 2008 M.A. Exam Committee, Damian Nemirovsky, Argentinian Diaspora 2007 M.A. Exam Committee, Elena Gibbons, Cuba's Race War of M.A. Exam Committee, Kerry Stefancyk, Race in Cuban Hip Hop and Popular Culture 2006 M.A. Exam Committee, Brittney Yancy, Gender and the Black Power Movement 2005 M.A. Exam Committee, Michael Neagle, Race and the Making of US Empire 2004 M.A. Exam Committee, Nadine Leon, the Haitian Revolution and the Idea of Citizenship Courses Developed/Taught New York University Race in Cuba (Undergraduate Seminar, Upper Division) Modern Latin American History (Undergraduate Lecture/Discussion) Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean History (Undergraduate Lecture/Discussion) The University of Connecticut, Storrs History of the Caribbean (Lecture/Discussion, Upper Division) Introduction to African-American Studies, Team-taught course for IAAS (Lecture/Discussion) History of the Hispanic Caribbean (Undergraduate Lecture/Discussion, Upper Division) Cuba from National and International Perspective (Undergraduate Research Seminar, Upper Division Cuba from Local and Global Perspective (Undergraduate Lecture/Discussion, Upper Division) History of the Black Experience in the Americas (Undergraduate Lecture/Discussion, Upper Division) Making of the African Diaspora (Graduate Seminar) Historical Development of the Caribbean (Graduate Seminar) Professional Memberships American Historical Association Latin American Studies Association Afro-Latin American Research Association Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora Caribbean Studies Association

13 13 Association of Caribbean Historians New England Conference on Latin American Studies Cuba Research Forum, United Kingdom Southern Historical Association, Latin American and Caribbean Section Languages Fluent in Spanish: speaking, reading, and writing. Fair command of French: speaking, reading. References Dr. Ada Ferrer, Associate Professor of History New York University, Department of History 53 Washington Square South New York, NY (212) Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of History and American Studies University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA (213) Dr. Sinclair Thomson, Associate Professor of History New York University, Department of History 53 Washington Square South New York, NY (212) Dr. Lisa Duggan, Professor of History and American Studies New York University, American Studies Department 256 Mercer Street New York, NY (212)

14 14 Dr. Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University, Department of History 53 Washington Square South New York, NY Dr. Lisa Brock, Academic Director and Professor of History, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Kalamazoo College 1200 Academy Street Kalamazoo, MI (269)