Dr. Erika Denise Edwards
Associate Professor of History
Dr. Erika D. Edwards is an Associate Professor of Latin American History. She received her PhD from Florida International University in Atlantic History with concentrations in Latin America and Pre-colonial Atlantic Africa. Edwards's research advocates for re-learning Argentina's black past and the origins of anti-blackness. She is the author of the award-winning book, , which is a gendered analysis of black erasure and the construction of race in Argentina. She is currently working on her next book project Her Presence Insults Me: A Family History of Race-Making in Argentina. Edwards has been interviewed and consulted by Buenos Aires Times, BBC, National Public Radio (NPR), The Atlanta Black Star, The New York Times, World Bank, The Guardian, Telemundo, and profiled in AskMeAnything, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and Fox News. She has provided various talks to institutions and organizations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. She teaches courses on African Diaspora, Latin American History, State-formation, and Black Women’s history at the graduate and undergraduate level.
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Contact Info:
Liberal Arts 314
(915) 747-8039
Email: ededwards@utep.edu