Shantee Rosado is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Latinx Studies in the Africana Studies and Latino and Caribbean Studies departments at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She received her PhD in Sociology with a certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. Her work examines racial inequalities and identities among Latinxs in the U.S. and Latin America, as well as Afro-Latinxs in popular culture—and she engages with these topics primarily through the lenses of Black feminist and racialized emotions theorizing. Rosado's current book project, Feeling Mixed: Latinos and the Emotional Politics of Race and Blackness, examines how historically-informed emotions shape the racial and political ideologies of 1.5- and second-generation Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in Central Florida. In addition to her solo-authored book project she is a co-author of the book The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach (Routledge Press 2025), which received an honorable mention for the 2025 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section.
At Rutgers, Rosado leads a collaborative research project titled The Emotional Rights Project, which examines how emotions and anti-Blackness figure into police brutality legal cases. She is also a co-leader of Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness, a project in Rutgers’ Department Africana Studies that addresses the root causes and potential solutions to global manifestations of anti-Blackness. Rosado was named a 2025-26 Early Career Faculty Fellow at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and was a 2024-25 Faculty Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She is also a proud member of the Black Latinas Know Collective.
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Rosado, Shantee. 2025. “Chapter 7: ‘My ovaries ain’t for you to bully’: Trap Feminist Rappers and the Fight for Sexual Autonomy and Reproductive Justice.” In The Art of Antiracism: Aesthetics, Race, and Contemporary Political Theory (Eds. Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin). New York: SUNY Press.
Rosado, Shantee. 2025. “Recuerdo: Blackness, Memory, and the Racial Contract in Puerto Rico.” Centro Journal 37 (1): 21–50. https://bit.ly/4heRfOL
Green, Aaryn L, Maretta Darnell McDonald, Veronica A Newton, Candice C. Robinson, and Shantee Rosado (equal authorship). 2025. The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003184980-1
Rosado, Shantee. 2021. “Race, Space, and Displacement: An Overview of Ethnoracial Dynamics in Colombia.” In Race and Ethnicity: The Sociological Mindful Approach. Edited by Jacqueline Brooks, Heidy Sarabia, and Aya Kimura Ida. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.
You can find Professor Rosado on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/in/shantee-rosado-80385a11