Sharika Crawford, Assistant Professor
Modern Latin America, circum-Caribbean, Afro-Latin America
The United States Naval Academy
572 Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402
Education:
- Ph.D. - University of Pittsburgh
- M.A. - University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A. - Kalamazoo College
Teaching Interests
- Modern Latin America
- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
- Afro-Latin America
- Modern Brazil
- The West in the Modern World
Scholarship:
Refereed Publications
Articles
"Panama Fever: Colombian Fears of Secession on San Andrés and Providencia Islands, 1903-1913," The Global South. (Interoceanic Diasporas and The Panama Canal's Centennial) 6, no.2 (Fall 2012): 15-38.
“A Transnational World Fractured but not Forgotten: British West Indian Migration to the Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providence,” New West Indian Guide/Nieu West-Indische Gids 85 1&2 (June 2011), 31-52.
Book Chapters
"Politics of Belonging on a Caribbean Borderland: The Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providencia," Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World, eds. Brian D. Behnken and Simon Wendt (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013), 19-37.
Book Reviews
Review of Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821-1900, by Joshua Rosenthal, Social History 48:2 (2013): 263-264.
Review of Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831, by Marixa Lasso, Latin American Essays 24 (2010): 103-104.
Works Submitted for Publication
Review of El Despertar de las comunidades afrocolombianas. Relatos de cinco líderes: Dorina Hernández, Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero, Marino Córdoba, and Zulia Mena. Ensayo introductorio por Ángel G. Quintero Rivera, by María Inés Martínez, Revista de Estudios Colombianos (forthcoming, 2014).
Works in Progress
"Contested Commons: Circular Migration, Turtle Fisheries, and State Rights in the Spanish circum-Caribbean, 1890-1930." Article manuscript in progress.
"The Turtlers: Transnational Migrants of the Maritime Caribbean." Book-length research project in progress.
Selected Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
Senior NARC Summer Grant, United States Naval Academy, to support work toward article in progress, June – August 2013
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, to support travel to foreign archives and summer writing, June – August 2013
NARC Seed Summer Grant, United States Naval Academy, to support research and summer writing, June-August 2012; June-August 2011; June-August 2010
Predoctoral Fellow, Consortium for Faculty Diversity, DePauw University, supported the completion of dissertation, June 2007 - June 2009
IIE/Fulbright Grant, Colombia, to support a full year of onsite anthropological and historical research about the islands of San Andrés and Providencia, July 2001-July 2002
Conferences Papers and Presentations
International Conferences
“Consolidating National Borders, Restricting Territorial Waters: Turtle Fishing in the Western Caribbean,” 44th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Willemstad, Curaçao, 16 May 2012.
National Conferences
“Turtling, Seasonal Migration, and State Restrictions in the Greater Caribbean, 1890-1930,” Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013.
“Memories of Panama: Secessionist Fears and Colombian Nation-Building on the Caribbean Islands of San Andrés and Providencia,” Invited paper, Gran Colombian Studies, Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013.
“The Catholic Mission on the Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providencia,” American Society of Church History 2012 Winter Meeting; co-sponsored by Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, 6 February 2012.
Regional Conferences
“From Border to Borderland: The Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providence in the Western Caribbean,” MACLAS XXXI, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 27 March 2010.
Campus Talks
“British West Indian Migration to the Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providence,” Forum for Latin American Studies, Annapolis, United States Naval Academy, 7 February 2011.
Television Appearances
"Conservationist's Murder Sheds Light on Turtle-Egg Poaching," interview by Monica Walton, Cayman 27 News, June 26, 2013.
Website: http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2013/06/26/conservationists-murder-sheds-light-on-turtle-egg-poaching
Professional Academic Service
National
Manuscript Reviewer, Mesoamerica (2011), Journal of Military History (2013)
Yard-wide
Co-Coordinator, Forum for Latin American Studies Committee, US Naval Academy, August 2009- present
Plebe Adviser, United States Naval Academy, May 2013 – present
Selected Department
Registrar, Naval History Symposium 2011, US Naval Academy, August 2010 – present
Elected Member, Pay Committee AY 12-13, U.S Naval Academy, September 2012 – present
Professional Affiliations
- American Historical Association
- Conference on Latin American History
- Association of Caribbean Historians
- Latin American Studies Association
- Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies
