Affiliated Faculty
- Title
- Ph.D. Candidate
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Latin American & Latino Studies
- Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies
- Phone
- Office Location
- Cowell College Faculty Office Addition, 214
- Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz California 95064
Research Interests
Research interests include the historic connections between New Orleans and Latin America, constructs of Blackness across the Americas.
Biography, Education and Training
Dominican parents. New York born, New Orleans raised. Current Grad Student. Budding Historian.
Articles about me and my work:
•"Graduate Student Studying New Orleans' Latin American Connections"
•"Latin American & Latino Studies Students Win Big In Awards, Fellowships"
•"For Survivors of New Orleans Gun Violence, A Lifelong Burden Often Awaits"
Honors, Awards and Grants
- UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2023-2024
Selected Publications
A "Spanish Element" in the New South: The Hispanic Press and Community in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
Selected Presentations
New Orleans-raised Dominican historian Rafael Delgadillo shares his research on New Orleans’ historic economic and cultural connections with Latin America. This Virtual Field Trip focuses on how a riot, Spanish-language newspapers, and Latin American exiles in 19th century New Orleans can help us understand contemporary migration flows and the emergence of Latinx communities in the New Orleans metro area.
Link to presentation on YouTube via Historic New Orleans Collection.
Teaching Interests
- •Afro-Latin American History
- •New Orleans History
- •Colonialism and Racial Formation
