Sophia Monegro
African and African Diaspora Studies Department
The University of Texas at Austin
smonegro.sm@utexas.edu | sophia.monegro@fulbrightmail.org | (347) 513-0911
Education
2024
2020
2016
Doctoral Candidate, African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Portfolio in Women and Gender Studies Dissertation: “Shadow Scholars: Black Women’s Thought in Santo Domingo, 1492-1850.”
2020 M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Thesis: “Unequal Intimacy: Redressing Black Women’s Emigration to Dominican Society within Unified Haiti.”
B.A., English Literature and History, The City College of New York, CUNY
Magna Cum Laude and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow
Honors Thesis: “Oligarch and Peasant: Mediating National Trauma in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones.”
Employment
2020-2023
2021-2022
2021
2020-2021
2016-2020
2015-2016
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
Research Associate acting as programming coordinator, curriculum writer, and academic researcher.
The City College of New York, CUNY
Chief Editor for the Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books, English Department.
The City College of New York, CUNY
Instructor, Latin American and Latino Studies Program.
The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Editor for the Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books, English Department.
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
Research Assistant acting as curriculum writer and researcher for the first-ever M.A. specialization in Dominican Studies in the U.S. or outside of the Dominican Republic.
CUNY Dominican Studies Library and Archives
Research Assistant acting as researcher and writer for the “Travel Narratives Project,” a research monograph on the disciplinary variation of travel accounts about Dominican society.