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Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
De Luna
Georgetown University
2
Ana Laura Zavala Guillen
Queen Mary University of London
3
Duncan M. Yoon
New York University
4
Doyle Calhoun
University of Cambridge
5
Ruthie Meadows
University of Nevada, Reno
6
Frederick Ochieng-Odhiambo
University of the West Indies
7
Michele Valerie Ronnick
Smith College
8
Tacuma Peters
City University of New York
9
Philip Janzen
University of Florida
10
Sabine Lamour
Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité Sociale (Québec)

Rising Stars Papers

1
Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: The Maroon connection
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers|2024
1 cit.
2
Experimental fusion (fusión), ritual batá, and gendered interventions
Popular Music History|2024
0 cit.
3
Tania León's Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life By Alejandro L. Madrid. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Journal of the Society for American Music|2024
0 cit.
4
Haitian Feminists’ Struggle for the Right to Self-Determination
Palimpsest|2024
0 cit.
5
<i>La Poétique de la cale: variations sur le bateau négrier</i> . Par Fabienne Kanor <i>La Poétique de la cale: variations sur le bateau négrier</i> . Par KanorFabienne. (Littérature Rivages.) Paris: Payot &amp; Rivages, 2022. 432 pp., ill.
French Studies|2024
0 cit.
6
Glimpses of Haiti in West Africa, 1890–1920
Journal of Social History|2024
0 cit.
7
African literary studies and the China question: a response
Safundi|2024
0 cit.
8
The crisis of Bandung’s new human: Senghor reads Mao at the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists (1956)
Interventions|2025
0 cit.
9
“A Kind of Literary Archeology”: Excavating Morocco’s Slave Past under the Protectorate (1912–1956)
African Studies Review|2025
0 cit.
10
Theorizing from Struggle: Haiti's Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale (1934–1990)
Caribbean studies|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Mario LaMothe
University of Illinois Chicago
2
Raquel Schefer
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
3
Diego I. Ubiera
Fitchburg State University
4
Luís Ferreira
Madeira Tecnopolo
5
Meritxell Ferrer
Universitat de Lleida
6
Sophie Moulard
Les Afriques dans le Monde
7
Yvonne Kappel
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
8
Marie Brossier
Université Laval
9
Grégory Pierrot
University of Connecticut
10
Jorge E. Lefevre Tavárez
University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
<i>Nègre</i> (<i>Noir</i>, <i>Black</i>, <i>Renoi</i>, <i>Négro</i>)
Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism|2022
9 cit.
2
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)
African Affairs|2024
3 cit.
3
Creating Communities of Mourners through the Sense of Taste: The Consumption of Bread in Liminal Rites
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies|2023
1 cit.
4
Ethical navigation in the development of healthcare digital applications. Reflecting on a case study from the DC4DM Learning Lab on Madeira Island
Journal of Entrepreneurial Researchers|2024
1 cit.
5
Development of a new motor coordination test for the upper limb: preliminary usability study and correlation with the Box and Blocks Test and Tapping Test
Unknown Journal|2024
1 cit.
6
Présentation
Cinémas Revue d études cinématographiques|2023
0 cit.
7
Bayart (Jean-François) – L’État au Cameroun . – Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1979. 298 p. Bibliogr. Index.
Revue française de science politique|2022
0 cit.
8
Write Their Names: Percival Everett’s The Trees as Re[a]d Record
Palimpsest|2023
0 cit.
9
Underground Imaginaries of Extractivism in the African Novel
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|2023
0 cit.
10
The Empire Never Ended
˜The œEighteenth century/˜The œeighteenth century (Lubbock, Tex. Online)|2022
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jan Vansina
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2
Françoise Lionnet
Sorbonne Université
3
Doris Sommer
Harvard University
4
Sibylle Fischer
TU Dresden
5
Sally Price
University of Manchester
6
Paul Austerlitz
John Brown University
7
Chenyang Xu
Purdue University West Lafayette
8
Alan L. Kolata
University of Chicago
9
Charles R. Hale
Cornell University
10
Ute Röschenthaler
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governance, Cultural Rights and the Politics of Identity in Guatemala
Journal of Latin American Studies|2002
1.2k cit.
2
Literacy in Traditional Societies
African Historical Studies|1969
1.2k cit.
3
Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America.
Hispanic American Historical Review|1992
794 cit.
4
Oral Tradition as History
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1986
744 cit.
5
Activist Research v. Cultural Critique: Indigenous Land Rights and the Contradictions of Politically Engaged Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology|2006
695 cit.
6
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1993
673 cit.
7
Neoliberal Multiculturalism
PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review|2005
670 cit.
8
Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”
NACLA Report on the Americas|2004
590 cit.
9
Oral Tradition as History
The American Historical Review|1986
534 cit.
10
Oral Tradition as History
African Economic History|1985
412 cit.

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