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Peterson, M.A. (2021). 'Mostro son io': a Galilean Riddle and its Solution. Academia Letters, Article 2758. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2758
Mosby, D. E. (2003) Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Mosby, D. E. (2014) Quince Duncan: Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Mosby, D. E., translator (2018). Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors: Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity. Afro-Latin@ Diaspora Series, Palgrave Macmillan.
Travel fellowship from the Linda Hall Library for the project "Curricular Connections: Mapping, Transposing, and Teaching Research Methods in Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science." This fellowship will pay for Caro to travel to the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO in order to utilize specialized materials in support of ongoing work in her liaison areas.
Ximena Abello Hurtado is one of this year's recipients of the Whiting Fellowship. The Whiting Foundation supports writers, editors, educators, librarians, and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage. Ximena will spend a summer researching at the Vatican Apostolic Archive; she is currently working on a book manuscript centered on the lives of enslaved Black women writers in Spanish South America.
Adhikari, A. (2025). “The After of the Already Too Late”: Cinema, Time, and Third World Solidarity in Naeem Mohaiemen’s The Young Man Was. Cultural Critique, 127(1), 177–205. https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2025.a957080
Adhikari, A. (2024, April 2). "Globalectics (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)." Global South Studies. https://www.globalsouthstudies.org/keyword-essay/globalectics-ngugi-wa-thiongo/
Adhikari, A. (2023). Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee. Postcolonial Text, vol. 18, no. 1 & 2. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2821/2592
Aguilar, O. (2025). A Latine Outdoor Experience: Remembering, Resisting and Reimagining. Texas A&M University Press.
