Education
Ph.D. – History, Yale University, December 2011
M.A. – History, Yale University, May 2006
B.A., High Honors – Swarthmore College, June 2002
Research Interests
Hemispheric Black Studies, Comparative Caribbean Studies, Black Feminisms, Global Caribbean Diasporas, Latinx Studies, Central American Studies, Race and International Policy, Public Humanities, Citizenship & Migration Studies
Biographical Information
Professor Kaysha Corinealdi is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History. Her research focuses on histories of empire, migration, feminism, and Afro-diasporic activism in the Americas. She is the author of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press, 2022), which centers the activism of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants as they navigated practices and policies of anti-Blackness, xenophobia, denationalization, and white supremacy in Panama and the United States. Her writing can also be found in NACALA: Report on the Americas, Perspectivas Afro, Radical History Review, Public Books, the American Historical Review, Social Text, the Washington Post, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, among other publications. Corinealdi is currently working on three research projects: a series of essays on past and present day denationalization practices in the Americas; a speculative biography of Thelma King, a controversial political figure in twentieth century Panama; and a digital archive on elected Black women in Central America. She has obtained a $15K seed grant from the Rutgers Research Council in support of these latter two projects.
Corinealdi serves a member of the Steering Committee for the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, was a 2025-2026 Faculty Fellow for the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and in 2025-2026 coordinated a yearlong speaker series for LCS on the theme of “Undisciplined: Writing and Creating Otherwise in Latinx and Caribbean Studies.” Outside of Rutgers, Corinealdi has served as secretary and chair of the Caribbean Studies Section of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) (2020-2022), as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) (2026-2027), and is currently on the editorial board of the Global Black Thought journal, the University of North Carolina Press Latinx History Series, the Journal of Visual Culture, and the North American Council on Latin America (NACLA). She is also a frequent collaborator with Panama-based museums and educational centers and an active member of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Seminar, the American Studies Association (ASA), and the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC).
Please visit www.kayshacorinealdi.com for more information on Professor Corinealdi’s ongoing projects, collaborations, consulting work, and public engagements.
SCHOLARSHIP
Books
- Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022
Refereed Articles
- “Feminist Educators Against State Neglect.” Radical History Review 148, January 2024, 49-68
- “Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47:4, Summer 2022, 931-955
- “A Section for Women: Journalism and Gendered Promises of Anti-Colonial Progress in Interwar Panama.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Issue 12, December 2018, 91-120
- “Creating Transformative Education: Robert Beecher and Thinking Through Race and Empire from Panama to New York.” International Journal of Africana Studies, 18:2, Fall-Winter 2017, 83-103
- “Envisioning Multiple Citizenships: West Indian Panamanians and Creating Community in the Canal Zone Neocolony.” The Global South, 6:2, Special Issue, Interoceanic Diasporas and the Panama Canal’s Centennial, Fall 2012, 87-106
Articles on Praxis & Pedagogy
- “Activismos afrocaribeños en contra de la xenofobia: el caso panameño, 1940-1968.” Perspectivas Afro, Volume 4, Issue 1, October 2024, 10-21
- “Making Global History Legible.” Part of AHR-Lab Issue “On Transnational and International History.” American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, 264-269
- “Essays from the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar.” With Sandy Alexandre, Kimberly Juanita Brown, and Eunsong Kim. Social Text 149, 39:4, December 2021, 55-73
Digital Humanities Work
- Escuelas Afrocaribeñas en Panamá: Innovación y resiliencia comunitaria/ Afro-Caribbean Schools in Panama: Innovation and Community Resilience. With Nyasha Warren, 2026
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- “Race.” In Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Frank Costigliola and Barbara Keys. Cambridge University Press, 2025, 225-240
Public Writing
- “Denationalization and Historical Memory: The Panamanian Case,” The Funambulist No. 63, December 2025
- “On Isthmian Knowing: Bodies, Archives, Futures.” With Jorge E. Cuéllar and Paul Joseph López Oro. North American Council on Latin America: Report on the Americas 57:2, Summer 2025
- “Bringing Research Home: Self-Discovery and Self-Healing while Collecting Living Histories.” With Nyasha Warren. North American Council on Latin America: Report on the Americas 57:2, Summer 2025
- “Where I Go: Seeing Panama City Through the Eyes of Elders.” Zócalo Public Square, October 16, 2023
- “Panama in Black as an Offering: An Author’s Response.” AAIHS-Black Perspectives, June 2, 2023
- “Jim Crow was Hemispheric. So was the Black Activism that Sought to Dismantle it.” Made by History Blog, Washington Post, February 18, 2022
- “Thelma King and the Call for Revolution.” Public Books, Global Black History Section, January 5, 2022
- “Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day.” AAIHS-Black Perspectives, September 14, 2021
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
- Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellow, Wellesley College, Fall 2023-Spring 2024
- Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) Fellow, Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University Fall2019-Spring 2020
- Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Career Enhancement Fellow, Fall 2019