Yesenia Barragan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College and a historian of Afro-Latin America. In particular, she is a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, the Andes, and the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds. She received her PhD in Latin American and Caribbean History at Columbia University ('16), where she was a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, and her BA at Brown University ('08), where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and Beinecke Scholar.Yesenia is currently a blogger for the African American Intellectual History Society and an opinion columnist for the major Latin American news agency Telesur, where she writes on race, social movements, and the historical memory of slavery in the Americas. She is the author of Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-for-Gold in the Age of Austerity (Zero 2014), a creative, historical ethnography of cash-for-gold shops in the wake of the la, economic crisis based on fieldwork in Spain, Greece, and Colombia. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, among others. Yesenia is also a first-generation daughter of working-class immigrants from Latin America, a longtime activist involved in many social and racial justice movements, and serves as a legal expert for asylum cases related to Colombia.