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Marie Cruz Soto

Marie Cruz Soto

Clinical Assistant Professor
B.A., Puerto Rico, 2000
M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
Ph.D. History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008

Marie Cruz Soto is interested in the cultural history of the peoples of the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States of America. Her work focuses on identity negotiations, postcolonial and feminist theory, spatial and historical narrations, nationalism, empire studies, coloniality in the Americas, community formations and transnational networks. At Gallatin, she has taught courses like “Feminism, Empire and Postcoloniality,” “Narrating Memory, History and Place,” “Boundaries and Transgressions” and “The U.S. Empire and the Americas.” Currently, she is working on a book titled Inhabiting Isla Nena, 1514-2003: Imperial Formations, Historical Narrations and Vieques, Puerto Rico which delves into the five-century struggle of peoples to inhabit the Caribbean island of Vieques and of empires to control it.
 

Contact Information

Marie Cruz Soto

Clinical Assistant Professor
m.cruz@nyu.edu
1 Wash Pl, Room 614
(212) 99TBD
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Courses

2012 Fall

First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: Boundaries and Transgressions
Tue,Thu 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Feminism, Empire and Postcoloniality
Tue,Thu 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

2011 Spring

Narrating Memory, History and Place
Mon,Wed 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

The U.S. Empire and the Americas
Mon,Wed 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Research and Teaching Interests

cultural history of the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States with an emphasis on identity negotiations, postcolonial and feminist theory, spatial and historical narrations, nationalism, empire studies, community formations and transnational networks

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