Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

Black queer/feminist theories, Latina/e feminisms, race/class/gender/sexuality and empire, the black Atlantic, transatlantic slave trade, the creation/curation of archives

Biography, Education and Training

Bree Booth is a PhD candidate in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, originally from Lake County, IL. Bree received their B.A. in Africana Studies (self-designed) from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. Via a comparative approach across cases, their dissertation analyzes how early-modern criminal records from Spain and Colombia produced narratives about race, gender, and often sexuality. In response, Bree puts the cases into conversation with poetry, plays, and fiction to create a counter-narrative to the ones suggested by the cases. As a result, the dissertation expands the perspectives on how enslaved people of African descent attained desire and intimacy and how religion and the law subsequently mediated such encounters.

Honors, Awards and Grants

UC-MRPI "Routes to Enslavement" Grant (2023)

LALS HSI-DDI Summer Publishing Institute (2023)

Lionel Cantu Memorial Award (2022)

LALS Qualifying Exams Fellowship (Winter 2022)

UCSC-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (Spring/Summer 2021)

Tri-Alpha First Generation Honor Society (2019) 

Muhlenberg College Dean of Academic Life Summer Research Grant Recipient (Summer 2018)

Selected Performances

Sedehi Diversity Project Student Director (2017)

Sedehi Diversity Project Ensemble Member (2016)

Teaching Interests

Instructor Experience:

• Spiritual Revelations: Afro and Indigenous Perspectives on Death and Nature

Teaching Assistant Experience:

• American Revolution
• Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latino Studies
• Cultural Theory in the Americas
• Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
• Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice
• Race and Mobility
• Social Science Analytics 
• Unfree Migrations