Dr. Erika Denise Edwards

Dr. Erika Denise Edwards is an Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Edwards's research advocates for a re-learning of Argentina's Black past and the origins of anti-blackness throughout the Americas. She has published the award-winning book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law and the Making of a White Argentine Republic. Edwards has been interviewed and/or consulted by La Voz del Interior, Buenos Aires Times, Telemundo, The World Bank, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. She has provided various talks to institutions and organizations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. She teaches courses on African Diaspora, Colonial Latin America, and Black Women’s history, at the graduate and undergraduate level