Margarita Rosa

Dr. Margarita Rosa is a scholar of Afro-Latin American history, African American history, and contemporary art. 

Specializing in Black women's histories, Dr. Rosa is currently working on two book projects: "Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Hereditary Slavery in the Spanish and Portuguese New World Colonies" and "Archive of the Body: Fugitivity, Kinship, and Black and Caribbean Feminist Theory in the Americas." Her research areas of focus are the Spanish Caribbean, Haiti, Brazil, and the United States. 

Her courses center on primary sources, paleography, and focused historical studies. 

Rosa has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. From 2021-2023, Rosa was a faculty Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Caribbean rebellion, Black Studies, and Gender Studies. Her academic work has appeared in The Journal of African American History, The Black Scholar, and Slavery & Abolition, among others. Rosa has won the Wells-Du Bois Prize from the African American Intellectual History Society and is currently nominated for the 2024 Association of Black Women Historians' Letitia Woods Article Prize.

In 2024, Rosa was nominated and selected for the Arts Leadership Praxis at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her academic and curatorial work has been featured in Ebony, Teen Vogue, and Hyperallergic, among others.