Recent Alumni
David Carletta is from Rochester, New York and holds a master's degree in history from Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, California) and a master's degree in international affairs from Ohio University (Athens, Ohio). His main research interest is US-Latin American relations. Currently, he is writing up his dissertation on Francis Grant, an American activist for women's rights and democracy in Latin America during the Interwar and Cold War eras. He uses her life as a lens to examine how gender, nongovernmental organizations, and center left politics shaped the evolution of US and Latin American relations in the mid-twentieth century. After defending his PhD, Mr. Carletta plans to attend seminary with the goal of becoming an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church.
Eric D. Duke (PhD 2006) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida. He teaches courses on African American, Caribbean, and Black Diaspora History, as well as courses on Black Radicalism and Blackness in the Americas. Eric specializes in twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean, African American, and Black Diaspora History, with particular focus on the overlapping and interconnected histories of these areas. His research interests include: Race and Nation-Building/Nationalism, Race and Identity Construction, Decolonization, Black Internationalism, and Intra-racial Relations.
Edward "Eduardo" Paulino (PhD 2001) is an assistant professor in the Department of History at CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. His research interests include state formation, violence, historical memory and ideology in the construction and legacy of national identity. He teaches courses on world history, genocide, borders, and ethnic conflict.
Chantalle F. Verna (PhD 2005) is assistant professor of U.S. foreign relations with Latin America and the Caribbean in the departments of History and International Relations at Florida International University (Miami, FL). Her recent courses include Modern American Civilization, Inter-American Relations, Dynamics of Contemporary International Relations, and Haiti-U.S. Relations. Her current research activities include preparing a book manuscript based on her 2005 doctoral dissertation entitled “Haiti’s ‘Second Independence’ and the Promise of Pan-American Cooperation, 1934-56.”