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The University of Connecticut
Wood Hall, Room 202
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-3465
E-mail: melina.pappademos@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
20th century African Diaspora, the Caribbean, Cuba
Biographical Note:
Dr. Melina Pappademos is a native of Oak Park, Illinois. She earned a B.A. from Cornell University, her M.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and her Ph.D. in history from New York University. Professor Pappademos' research and teaching interests focus on the social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, and nationalisms, particularly of people of African descent in the Caribbean and Latin America. Recently, she has co-coordinated trips to Cuba, traveling there with students for study abroad. Supported in part by the Ford Foundation as well as a Fulbright-Hays research grant, her current project examines political culture among black Cuban elites during the republican period.
Selected Publications:
"Romancing the Stone: Academe's Illusive Template for African Diaspora Studies." In Issue: Journal of Opinion, Conceptualizing the African Diaspora, 35, no 2 (1996): 38-49
"Juan Gualberto Gómez." In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, Colin Palmer, et al, editors. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.
"Afrocuba." In The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, Carol Boyce Davies, et al, editors. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc. (forthcoming)
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