Sophia Monegro is a literary scholar working at the crossroads of Black Women’s Intellectual History, Dominican Studies, and Digital Humanities. She earned her PhD in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at The University of Texas at Austin in 2025. Currently, Dr. Monegro serves as the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Washington University in St. Louis. Starting this July, Sophia Monegro will join the faculty at Smith College as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department.  

Her research, featured in Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies and the Global Black Thought Journal, excavates Black Feminist thought and African descendant women’s activism in colonial Santo Domingo. The Fulbright Program, Mellon Foundation, and American Association of University Women have supported her research. As a digital humanist, Monegro’s digital projects democratize access to archives that account for Black Caribbean women’s intellectualism in the Atlantic world.She is the Primary Investigator on an ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grant for the creation of “Cimarronas: A Black Women’s Archive of Ayiti-Quisqueya,” a trilingual digital platform that makes Black Caribbean women’s histories accessible to diverse audiences.