Aisha FinchAssociate Professor of WGSSDirector of Graduate Studies (WGSS)
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Co-editor with Fannie T. Rushing, Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912, Louisiana State University Press, 2019
“Scandalous Scarcities: Black Slave Women, Plantation Domesticity, and Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Cuba,” Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 2010), 101-143.
“‘What Looks Like a Revolution’: Enslaved Women and the Gendered Terrain of Slave Insurgencies in Cuba, 1843–1844,” Journal of Women’s History 26, no. 1 (Spring 2014) 112-134
“The Repeating Rebellion: Slave Resistance and Political Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, 1812-1844,” in Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912 (2019)
“Black Feminist Knowledge Production, Archival Recuperation, and Slave Resistance Movements,” The Body and the Body Politic Roundtable, Women and Social Movements in the United States Vol. 23, no. 2 (2019): 1-4.
“Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí: Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba,” in As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas, edited by Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder, Cambridge University Press, 2020
“Introduction: Black Feminism and the Practice of Care,” Special Issue of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, forthcoming, Spring/Summer 2022, co-edited with Jessica Millward and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard