Recent Alumni

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.”