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About Sharika Crawford
Sharika Crawford is a social historian of Latin America and the circum-Caribbean. Much of her work has studied the histories of African-descended, English-speaking communities within Spanish-speaking republics such as the Colombian islands of San Andrés and Providencia. Beyond her scholarship, she also sees herself as a world history educator seeking to find ways to better integrate the historical voices of Africans and Latin Americans into broader global narratives of the past.Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
NBN Episodes hosted by Sharika:
July 5, 2021
The Digital Black Atlantic
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies…
March 10, 2021
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination
This ambitious work explores the literary and cultural production about Russian peasants and African Americans in the post-emancipation period. Bricke…
February 11, 2021
Architecture in Global Socialism
In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with …
January 20, 2021
Rogue Revolutionaries
The University of Pennsylvania describes Mongey's work as follows. "When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint…
December 29, 2020
Blood on the River
In Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (New Press, 2020), historian Marjoleine Kars tells the story of a massive e…
December 22, 2020
From the Tricontinental to the Global South
In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history…
October 21, 2020
Black Land
In Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America (Princeton University Press, 2019), Nadia Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth c…
September 23, 2020
No Limits to Their Sway
In No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), Edgardo…
July 24, 2020
Sovereign Acts
In Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Katherine Zien examines the wa…
June 24, 2020
Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators
African Americans have a long history of emigration. In Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana, Steven J. L. Taylor explores…
June 23, 2020
Isles of Noise
The Caribbean has figuratively and literally been entangled in processes of global integration earlier than other parts of the Americas. In Isles o…
June 10, 2020
Tides of Revolution
In Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (University of New Mexico Press, 2018), Cristina Soria…
June 9, 2020
The Politics of Taste
In The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2019), Ana María Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist B…
June 1, 2020
Jah Kingdom
Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization (UNC Press, 2017), examines Rastafarian repatriation to Tanzania …
May 29, 2020
Guerrilla Marketing
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2019) investigates the Colombian government’s campaign…
May 19, 2020
Rice in the Time of Sugar
In his book, Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (UNC Press, 2019), Louis A. Pérez, Jr. explores how Cuba’s dependency on…
May 14, 2020
Troubling Freedom
In Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2015), Natasha J. Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans …