Afro-Latin American/Latinx Studies Project
Proyecto de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos
Focusing on Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World
To create a vibrant space for faculty and students to engage through research, coursework, conference panels, workshops, and public lectures in the histories, cultures, and societies of Afro-Latin America.
Centrado en América Latina y la Diáspora Africana en el mundo Atlántico
Crear un espacio vibrante para que el profesorado y los estudiantes se dediquen, a través de la investigación, los cursos, los paneles de conferencias, los talleres y las charlas públicas, a las historias, las culturas y las sociedades de la América Afro-latina.
![CACE conference, Nodia Mena speaking as part of a roundtable.](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ALALX-CACE-e1653488494764.jpeg)
![Participants in CACE Afro-Latin American/Latinx Studies.](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ALALX-group-at-CACE-scaled-e1661694287196-1024x675.jpeg)
EXHIBITS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Faculty
Some UNCG faculty and affiliated researchers working on or teaching aspects of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx cultures and histories:
![Omar Ali](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ali.jpg)
![Monica Carrillo Zegarra](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Carrillo.jpg)
Honors; Peru
![Robin Gee](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/gee-robin-e1505421639317.jpeg)
Dance; West Africa, Mali
![Dr. Cerise L. Glenn](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-23-at-8.47.18-PM-777x1024.png)
Cerise Glenn Manigault, Ph.D.
Sociology/AADS
![dominick hand](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hand-780x1024.jpeg)
Dominick Hand, M.A.
AADS
![Ana Paula Höfling](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hofling-Ana-Paula-Portrait-600x750_2021-22-e1653700937590.jpeg)
Dance; Brazil
![Nodia Mena](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mena.png)
School of Education; Honduras
![Linda M. Rupert](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/rupert300-e1653701284154.jpeg)
History; Early Modern Caribbean
![Stephanie Orosco](https://aads.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/orosco-e1654273492185.jpeg)
Stephanie Orosco
AADS alumna
Department of History Chair, Goldsboro High School, North Carolina
Selected Publications
Events & Activites
AADS, along with colleagues from across the university, shines a light on the African Diaspora in Latin America in a number of ways:
- CACE conference programing — Roundtable discussions and presentations on Afro-Latin America
- NEW CLASS — AADS 306 “Afro-Latin American Art, Politics, and the Law,” Co-taught by Monica Carrillo and Omar Ali. Past classes — AADS Special Topics “Afro-Latin America: Africa, Iberia, and the Americas”
- Recent public talks — UCLA scholar Nohora Arrieta Fernandez “Black Women Artists in Latin America”
- Publications by faculty members — ReVista article “African and Afro-Indian Rebel Leaders” and Atlantic Biographies Brill chapter “Benkos Biohó“), including the work of Omar Ali, Nodia Mena, and Ana Paula Höfling
- Co-hosting Afro-Peruvian visiting fellow Monica Carrillo in partnership with Lloyd International Honors College
- Working with Goldsboro, H.S., Department of History chair, Afro-Latina Stephanie Orosco, who serves as part of the Wayne County Public School’s Social Studies Super Core, around Afro-Mexican history and culture.