About Nicole Ramsey

I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose work resides at the intersection of Black studies, Caribbean studies, and Cultural studies. I am concerned with conceptions of nation, representation, and belonging across the Circum-Caribbean and particularly in Belize and the Belizean diaspora in the United States. My current book project, Sub Umbra Floreo (Under the Shade I Flourish): Performing the Belizean Nation reevaluates Belize as a site for understanding intersections in race, performance, and nationhood in the Black diaspora of Central America. I am interested in questions pertaining to gender, migration, identity formations, national identity, and nation in Black Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.

Nicole Ramsey is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African & African American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research examines formations of blackness, indigeneity, identity, and nation in Belize and the circum-Caribbean. On Twitter.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nicole:

Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

March 6, 2023

The Silver Women

Joan Flores-Villalobos
Hosted by Nicole Ramsey

In The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian …

Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2022)

September 19, 2022

Panama in Black

Kaysha Corinealdi
Hosted by Nicole Ramsey

In Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2022), Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of A…