Dr. Erika Denise Edwards

Associate Professor of History

Erika Denise Edwards is an Associate Professor of Latin American History.  Edwards’s research focuses on comparative relations and the origins of anti-blackness throughout the Americas. Argentina’s Black past is central to her comparative histories of race and anti-blackness. She is the author of the award-winning book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic, which is a gendered analysis of black erasure and the construction of race in Argentina. She is currently working on her next book project Her Presence Insults Me. Edwards has been interviewed and consulted by Buenos Aires Times, BBC, National Public Radio (NPR), The Atlanta Black Star, The New York Times, World Bank, The Guardian,  Telemundo, and profiled in AskMeAnything, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and Fox News, and The New York Post. She has provided various talks to institutions, organizations and universities in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. She teaches courses on  Latin American History, State-formation, Afro-Latin America, African-American History, and Black Women’s history at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Curriculum vitae 2026

Faculty Profile

Contact Info:

Texas Western Hall 320H

(915) 747-8039

Email: ededwards@utep.edu