Melina Pappademos

Areas of Specialty

20th century African Diaspora, Caribbean, Cuba

Current Research Interests

Racial Consciousness, Political Cultures

Biography

Melina Pappademos is a native of Oak Park, Illinois. She earned a B.A. from Cornell University, her M.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and her Ph.D. in history from New York University. Professor Pappademos’ research and teaching interests focus on the social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, and nationalisms, particularly of people of African descent in the Caribbean and Latin America. Recently, she has co-coordinated trips to Cuba, traveling there with students for study abroad. Supported in part by the Ford Foundation as well as a Fulbright-Hays research grant, her current project examines political culture among black Cuban elites during the republican period.

Links of Interest

• Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino History
• Institute for African-American Studies
• Institute for Puerto Rican Studies
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Afrocubaweb
• Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies
• Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas, Austin—The African Diaspora