Research & Publications
As a scholar, my research is interdisciplinary and straddles the fields of political science, sociology, African studies, and women and gender studies. Currently, I am one of a handful of scholars whose work focuses on the emerging field of Cabo Verdean Women’s Studies adding the voice, stories, and experiences of these women to the larger body of literature on (Lusophone) African studies, African women’s studies, African gender studies, and modern African diaspora studies. I am especially interested in Cabo Verdean women’s understanding and expressions of self-identity, self-love, sexuality, womanhood, sisterhood, and self-empowerment.
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Books
Cabo Verdeans in the United States: 21st Century Critical Perspectives. Washington, DC: Lexington Press, 2024.
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas. Washington, DC: Lexington Press, 2021.
Book Chapters
With Aminah Fernandes Pilgrim. “Um Sabe Kem Mi Eh (I Know Who I am): Transnational Kriolas, Social Media and Self-Empowerment” in Msia Clark et. al, African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora. Mkuki Na Nyota Publishings. March 2023.
“Where Are the Women? Cabo Verdean Diaspora in the Context of African Development,” in João Resendes-Santos and Aminah N. Pilgrim, Economic Growth and Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa: Cabo Verde, Small States, and the World Economy. Lexington Press. March 2022.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds: (Re)Defining My Identity in the Context of an All-Girls Private American Education” in Msia Kibona Clark et. al, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism. Lexington Press. December 2018.
“Beyond Cultural Descriptions and into the New Millennium: An Updated Portrait of Cape Verdean Women In The United States” in As mulheres em Cabo Verde: Experiências e Perspectivas, Praia: Universidade de Cabo Verde, 2012.
Articles
Guest Editor. Special Volume on Cabo Verdean Women Scholars. Journal of Cape Verdean Studies, 4(1), 1-3. 2019. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jcvs/vol4/iss1/1
Book Review. Levitt, Jeremy I, ed. 2015. Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements, and Actions. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 2016, Vol. 37, No. 2, 1–2.
“D’Nos Manera: Gender, Collective Identity and Leadership in The Cape Verdean Community in The United States.” Journal of Cape Verdean Studies. Number 1, April 2015.
“Cape Verdean Music and Musicians.” Oxford University Press Blog, November 29, 2012. Online via http://blog.oup.com/2012/11/cape-verdean-music-and-musicians/.
Contributing Author, Dictionary of African Biographies.
Editors-in-Chief: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Germano Almeida, Nacia Gomes, Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, Aristides Maria Pereira, Carlos Veiga, Cesaria Evora, Luis Morais, Ildo Lobo, Isaura Gomes, Lura, Eugenio Tavares, Nancy Vieira, Onesimo Silveira, Vera Duarte, Suzanna Lubrano, Mayra Andrade, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, Jose Maria Neves, Pedro Pires.
