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Sharika Crawford, Assistant Professor Modern Latin America, circum-Caribbean, Afro-Latin America Email: scrawfor@usna.edu Education:
Teaching Interests: Scholarship: Refereed Publications Articles “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 Reviews 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 “Panama Fever: Colombian Fears of Secession on San Andrés and Providencia Islands,” in Global South Special Issue: Interoceanic Diasporas and the Panama Canal’s Centennial, in press, spring 2013. “The Politics of Belonging on a Caribbean Borderland: The Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providencia” in Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2013). Review of Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821-1900, by Joshua Rosenthal. Under review by Journal of Social History, 48:2 (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. Grants, Fellowships, and Awards NARC Seed Summer Grant, United States Naval Academy, to support research and summer writing, June-August 2012; June-August 2011; June-August 2010 Provost Development Fund Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, to support dissertation writing, September 2006-May 2007 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, to support dissertation fieldwork titled “‘Under the Colombian Flag’: Race and Nation-Making on the Islands of San Andrés and Providence, 1886-1930,” September 2005-August 2006 Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Diversity Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2005 FAS African American Summer Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh, to support preliminary doctoral research for three academic summers, 2003-2005, and 2007. UCIS International Travel Grant, University of Pittsburgh, to support a week-long research trip to investigate missionary archives in England, March 2005. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS), Academic Year Fellowship, University of Portuguese, to support study of Brazilian Portuguese, 2003-2004 Provost Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh, to provide supplemental support for preliminary doctoral research in Colombia, June-July 2003 K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, to provide tuition and board for a full academic year, 2002-2003 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, Curação, 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. Professional Academic Service National Manuscript Reviewer, Mesoamerica Yard-wide Co-Coordinator, Forum for Latin American Studies Committee, US Naval Academy, August 2009- present 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 Caribbean Studies Association Latin American Studies Association Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies
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