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. Their dissertation analyzes poetry, plays, and fiction alongside early-modern criminal cases from Spain and Colombia through the lens of desire and intimacy. Via a comparative approach across cases, Bree analyzes how desire and intimacy were attained by enslaved people of African descent and how the courts 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

Teaching Assistant Experience:

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