Javiela Evangelista

Javiela Evangelista is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department. As a public anthropologist she engages in participatory research that counters inequalities, particularly at the intersections of citizenship and racialization in the Caribbean and the African Diaspora. Evangelista is developing her book manuscript, an ethnographic analysis of the largest case of mass statelessness in the western hemisphere, the contemporary denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic. This research has been supported by a Fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY Foundation . Her work has also been featured at the Venice Biennale and in the Publication of Afro-Latin/American Research Association (PALARA), National Political Science Review and Interdisciplinary Team Teaching (Palgrave). At New York City College of Technology, Evangelista is the Co-Director of the Living Lab, a general education and experiential learning initiative. She also serves on the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Steering Committee.  She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, CUNY and her MA from the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.