Javiela Evangelista

Javiela Evangelista is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology, one of the campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on nationalism, racialization, citizenship, and human rights in the Caribbean and the African Diaspora. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, she will continue to work on her book, an ethnographic analysis of the largest case of mass statelessness in the western hemisphere today, the modern day denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic. Evangelista's book project has been supported by a Faculty Fellowship at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY Foundation for archival research at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland and Archivo de Indias in Seville, Spain. Currently, she is a Faculty Affiliate with the Immigration Initiative at Harvard University. For the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Evangelista serves as one of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) observers and as a member of the Declaration of Human Rights Draft Committee. She also enjoys her role as a mentor with the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, led by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Evangelista received her PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, CUNY and her MA from the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.