Sharika D. Crawford
Speedwell Professor of International Studies
Professor of History
Modern Latin America, Circum-Caribbean, Afro-Latin America
- E-mail: scrawfor@usna.edu
- Personal website: www.sharikacrawford.com
- Department of History
The United States Naval Academy
107 Maryland Avenue
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
- The Atlantic Slave Trade
- Panama and the Canal
- The West in the Modern World (or Modern World History)
Research Interests
- circum-Caribbean
- Colombia
- Afro-Latin America
- African diaspora
Scholarship
Monograph
2020.The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press) Honorable Mention, 2021 Elsa Goveia Book Prize, Assocation of Caribbean Historians
Selected Publications
2023. "The Afterlives of Migration in Panama and its Diaspora," Black Perspectives, May 29th.
2021. "The End of Turtle Soup: How Food Fashion Changed the Economy of the Cayman Islands," History Today (August): 16-18.
2021. "Andean or Caribbean? Nine Books on Colombia," Latin American Research Review 56:2 (June 2021): 512-521.
2017. “The African Personality Returns: The Controversy over Gandhi at the University of Ghana,” Perspectives on History (March): 16-17.
2011. “A Transnational World Fractured but not Forgotten: British West Indian Migration to the Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providence,” New West Indian Guide 85 (1&2): 31-52.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023. Speedwell Professor of International Studies, United States Naval Academy
2022. The Harold and Laura Greer Lecturer in Latin American History, Virginia Commonwealth University
2022. Class of 1951 Distinguished Faculty in Research Excellence Award, United States Naval Academy
2021. Honorable Mention, 2021 Elsa Goveia Book Prize Committee, Association of Caribbean Historians
2021. Admiral Jay L. Johnson Professorship in Leadership and Ethics
2014. Apgar Teaching in Excellence Award, United States Naval Academy
Professional Affiliations
- American Historical Association
- Conference on Latin American History
- Association of Caribbean Historians
- Latin American Studies Association
- Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
