Yesenia Barragan

Yesenia Barragan is a historian whose research examines the transnational history of race, slavery, and emancipation in Afro-Latin America and the African diaspora in the Americas. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. She is a co-leader of the Slavery + Freedom Studies Working Group, an Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Justice (ISSJ) at the institute.

Led by Yesenia Barragan, this interdisciplinary Working Group brings together faculty across departments whose work engages with the problem of slavery, freedom, and the post-emancipation world historically and cross-culturally, from ancient Rome, Asia, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Indian Ocean. This group encourages and acknowledges the value of scholarship that approaches bondage and freedom within particular disciplinary conventions, amid regional, imperial, or national contexts, and in specific eras. 

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-seminars-social-justice