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EDUCATION:Brown University, B.A., 1991; City University of New York, D.Phil., 1992; Florida International University, Ph.D.; studied at the University of Ibadan.
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Researcher, educator, and writer. City University of New York, NY, research assistant, 1999-2002, writing fellow, 2003-05; Kellogg Foundation, New York, NY, research fellow and photo voice project coordinator, 2001-02; Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, CA, interviewer, 2006-07; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, teaching fellow, 2007-09; Greater New Orleans Foundation, LA, local documentarian, 2009; Florida International University, Miami, assistant professor of global and sociocultural studies and in the African and African Diaspora Studies Program, 2009–.
AWARDS:Grants and fellowships from organizations including Tulane University, Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Kellogg Foundation.
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Contributor of chapters to books. Contributor of articles to publications, including the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and Souls.
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Andrea Jean Queeley is a writer and educator. In 1991, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. She obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the City University of New York the following year. Queeley also holds a Ph.D. from Florida International University and studied abroad at the University of Ibadan, in Nigeria. From 1999 to 2005, she worked for the City University of New York, first as a research assistant and then as a writing fellow. Queeley served as a research fellow and photo voice project coordinator for the Kellogg Foundation and an interviewer for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. In 2007, she joined Tulane University as a teaching fellow, a position she held for two years. In 2009, Queeley worked as a local documentarian for the Greater New Orleans Foundation. That same year, she became an assistant professor at Florida International University. She has received grants and fellowships from organizations including Tulane University, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Queeley has written chapters of books and has contributed articles to scholarly publications such as the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. She collaborated with Karen G. Williams to write the 2009 book Study Guide for “Let Nobody Turn Us Around.”
In 2015, Queeley released Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba. In this volume, she examines the ways in which the African Anglo-Caribbean community in Cuba has regarded itself throughout history. Queeley suggests that the community’s view of itself has changed over the years based on the state of economic and political environments. She begins the book by explaining that workers from the British West Indies arrived in large numbers during the first three decades of the 1900s. Those workers adhered to the belief that observing the norms of respectability at the time would make them worthwhile. However, the African Anglo-Caribbean population of Cuba experienced a change in the way it self-identified during the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Members of the community then began identifying as part of a political group rather than as part of an ethnic community. Queeley explains that the economic collapse in Cuba following the Soviet Union’s dissolution brought members of the African Anglo-Caribbean population back together again. The community began advocating in favor of racial and economic equality.
B.A. Lucero offered a favorable assessment of Rescuing Our Roots in Choice. Lucero commented: “This nuanced study contributes new perspectives on historical black identity formation and contemporary activism in Cuba.” Lucero categorized the book as “highly recommended.”
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Choice, April, 2016, B.A. Lucero, review of Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba, p. 1219.
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Florida International University, Cuban Research Institute Web site, https://cri.fiu.edu/ (March 22, 2017), author profile.
Journal of Pan African Studies, http://www.jpanafrican.org/ (March 1, 2016), review of Rescuing Our Roots.
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CURRICULUM VITAEANDREA QUEELEY, Ph.D.Florida International University, LC 303B11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199305-348-6289aqueeley@fiu.eduwww.fiu.edu/~queeleyEDUCATION2007Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Anthropology City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center1992Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Afro-American StudiesBrown University 1991Brown University Study Abroad Program University of Ibadan, NigeriaPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEFall 2009-presentAssistant Professor, Department of Global and Socio-cultural Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Florida International University. Miami, FL.2007-2009Teaching Fellow,Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.Responsibilities included developing and teaching one undergraduate (including a service learning course) and one graduate course per semester in the Latin American Studies Program.Spring 2009Local Documentarian, Community Revitalization Fund Evaluation, Greater New Orleans Foundation. New Orleans, LA. Conducted interviews with community leaders and activists regarding their participation in and analysis of housing and neighborhood recovery following HurricaneKatrina.2006-2007Interviewer, Family Strengths Project and Team Leader, Club Safety Project(PI: Dr. Brenda Miller), Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Berkeley, CA.
These research projects entailed using ethnographic interviews and surveys to investigate risky behaviors on the part of young adults and club-goers in order to develop prevention strategies. 2003-2005Writing Fellow, CUNY Writing Across the Curriculum Project, Borough of Manhattan Community College(BMCC), New York, NY.Responsibilities included: developing curriculum and creating assignments in collaboration with faculty partners for traditional and distance learning courses; co-facilitating BMCC faculty trainings; supporting students in becoming more effective writers through in-class presentations and individual meetings; and participating in several CUNY-wide faculty-facilitated pedagogical workshops.2001-2002Research Fellow and Photovoice Project Coordinator, Kellogg Foundation Scholar Practitioner Program, New York,NYPart of the Kellogg Foundation‟s Devolution Initiative, the Community Outreach and Research Project funded university scholars in the effort to assess the impact of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act on local communities and create innovative ways to bring new voices into the public policy debate about welfare reform. 1999-2002Research Assistant, Dr. Leith Mullings, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.Projects included: syllabus development for a course on publicanthropology; preparation of the manuscript Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal, Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Eds. (2000) and Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Eds. (2002); field research for Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem, Leith Mullings and Alaka Wali (2001); and bibliographic research for Mullings‟ 2005 article, “Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology”, Annual Review of Anthropology34:667-93.FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS2007-2009Stone-Zemurray Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University.Summer 2005Interrogating the African DiasporaInternational Graduate Student Seminar, funded by the Ford Foundation and sponsored byFlorida International University, the University of California Berkeley and Tulane University.Summer 2002National Science Foundation Summer Institute in ResearchDesign for Cultural Anthropologists (SIRD), Beaufort, North Carolina. 2001-2002Kellogg Foundation Scholar Practitioner Program Research Fellowship.
PUBLICATIONS BooksQueeley, Andrea,Manuscript in Preparation, “A Dream Derailed?: the English-speaking Caribbean Diaspora in Revolutionary Cuba”. Book ChaptersQueeley, Andrea, In Press,“Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone CaribbeanCultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba" inGlobal Circuits of Blackness: Race, Citizenship, and Modern Subjectivities. Percy C. Hintzen, Jean Muteba Rahier, and Felipe Smith, eds. University of Illinois Press. Queeley, Andrea, In Press,“The Passing of a Black Yankee: Fieldnotes/Cliff Notes of a Wannabe Santiaguera” inFieldwork Identities. Erin Brooke Taylor, ed. with foreword by Diane Austin-Broos, Caribbean Studies Press.Peer-Reviewed Journal PublicationsQueeley, Andrea 2003. “The Aesthetics of Criminalization”. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, v. 5(1): 1-15.Davis, Dana, Ana Aparicio, Audrey Jacobs, Akemi Kochiyama, Leith Mullings, Andrea Queeley, and Beverly Thompson 2003. “Working It Off: Welfare Reform, Workfare, and Work Experience Programs in New York City”.Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, v. 5(2): 22-41.Study GuideQueeley, Andrea 2003. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: A Study Guide. Lantham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. This study guide serves as a complement to Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, an anthology of three centuries of African American social and political writing edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings.Film Reviews and Other PublicationsQueeley, Andrea 2008.“Reading Cuba: Forecasting the Fate of Blacks „After Fidel‟”.Transforming Anthropology16(2): 165-67.Queeley, Andrea 2007. “The Promised Ship/El Barco Prometido: a film review”.The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology12(2): 547-549.Halasz, Judith and Maria Brincker with the assistance of Deborah Gambs, Denise Geraci, Andrea Queeley, and Sophie Solovyova 2006. “Making it your Own: Writing Fellows Re-evaluate Faculty „Resistance‟”. Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing, v.3: January-December.http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/articles/halasz2006.cfm
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONSNovember, 29, 2007“El Puente: Transnationalism Among Cubans of English-speaking Caribbean Descent”,Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C.October 11, 2007“West Indian Daughters, Cuban Women: Notes on the Remembering of Revolution”, Paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Annual Conference, Bridgetown, Barbados. June 1, 2006“Empowering Blackness: Anglophone Caribbean Cubans Rescuing Roots”,Paper presented at Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Port of Spain, Trinidad.October 14, 2005“Blackness in Cuba: An Immigrant Perspective”, Paper presented at „Faces of Cuba‟, a conference sponsored by Chabot College, Hayward, CA.June 3, 2005“Lifelines: The Resurgence of English-speaking Caribbean Associations during Cuba’s Special Period”,Paper presented at Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.April 16, 2005“Social Mobility among Black Immigrants in Revolutionary Cuba: A Dream Derailed?”, Paper presented at Caribbean Studies Association New York, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, New York, NY.October 4, 2004“Special Identities in a Special Period: the Case of West Indian Cubans”, Paper presented at „Cuba Today: Continuity and Change Since the „Periodo Especial‟. Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.November 15, 2002“Crossing the River: Narratives of Return as a Practice of Freedom in Morrison’s Belovedand Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”, Paper presented at Institute for Research in the African Diaspora in the Americas and theCaribbean (IRADAC) „Works in Progress‟ Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
INVITED TALKSJanuary 26, 2009“Between Blockades: Logistical Challenges, Socio-Political Taboos, and Being “North American” in Revolutionary Cuba”, Paper presented at the New York Academy of Sciences sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and Anthropology Section, New York, NY.October 10, 2008“Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship Across Cuba’s Tumultuous 20th Century”, Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.October 18, 2008“Uprooted and Criminalized: The Impact of Free Markets on Migrants”, Commentator, Empire and Solidarity in the Americas conference, University of New Orleans,Department of Latin American Studies, New Orleans, LA.July 10, 2008“Movement as Text: The African Diaspora in Latin America”, Presentation for Teacher‟s Summer Workshop sponsored by the Latin American Resource Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. May-June, 2002“Vision and Voice...Representations of Welfare Reform: The Photovoice Project of the New York State Scholar Practitioner Team”,Paper presented at Child Health Now! Coalition Forum, Welfare Reform Network Meeting, Harlem Congregation forCommunity Improvement Forum, Manhattan Borough President‟s Forum for Washington Heights and East Harlem, and University Settlement House Forum, New York, NY.April 27, 2001“Aesthetics of Hip Hop and the Urban Crisis”, Paper presented at the Africana Studies Group panel, „Hip Hop and Representation‟, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT2007-2009Undergraduate: „The African Diaspora in Latin America‟, „Caribbean Migrations: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic inFocus‟, „Latin American Migration to the United States: Post-Katrina New Orleans in Focus‟, „Cultures of the Caribbean‟ Graduate: „Intra-Caribbean and Latin American Migration‟, „Race and Revolution in Cuba‟.
GRADUATE STUDENTSM.A. Thesis, Spring 2008Committee Chair, “Lo Que el Ajiaco No Lleva: Haitianness, Race, and Culture in the Construction of Cubanidad”, Master‟s Thesis submitted to Latin American Studies, Tulane University. Graduate Independent Study, Fall 2008Supervisor, „Political Thought: The Caribbean New Left‟, Latin American Studies, Tulane University.UNIVERSITY SERVICESpring 2009Reader, “Finlay to Castro: Defining the Physician‟s Role in Modern Cuba”, Undergraduate Honor‟s Thesis submitted to Latin American Studies, Tulane University.Spring 2008Reader, “The Effect of Globalization and Free Trade Agreements on Intra-Caribbean Migration”, Master‟s Thesis submitted to Latin American Studies, Tulane University.Reader, “Caught in the Web: Social Networks and Brazilian Migration to the United States”, Undergraduate Honor‟s Thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology, Tulane University.Spring 2008-09Participantin bi-monthly faculty and graduate student seminar, „Seminar on Historical Change and Social Theory‟, Tulane University. Spring 2008Faculty sponsorof student-run film series on women and revolution, Tulane University. February 29, 2008Panel Chair, “Traveling the Caribbean”, Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance in and on theCaribbean, sponsored by Tulane University.April 19-22, 2001Rapporteur, Wounded Cities Conference, Tarrytown, New York.Spring 2001Founding Member, Africana Studies Group, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
COMMUNITY SERVICE2008-presentBoardMember, The Historic Lower 9th Ward Council for Arts and Sustainability, New Orleans, LA.Founded in 2008, the mission of this organization is to support the revitalization of the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina, through projects such as a monthly marketplace and a youth training and empowerment program.2008-2009Coordinator,„Lower 9thWard Living History and Culture‟ Exhibit, The Sankofa Marketplace, New Orleans, LA.Summer 2008Volunteer, The Porch Summer Arts Program, Seventh Ward, New Orleans, LA.Fall 2008-Spring 2009Advisor, Oxfam Gulf Coast Research Project, New Orleans, LA. Advised research team regarding the implementation and incorporation of photovoice, a participatory action research methodology, into their evaluation of the role of African American, Vietnamese, Hispanic, and Brazilian women in their community‟s recovery from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 2007-presentAdvisory BoardMember, The Little Genius Science and Math Program, a non-profit educational organization aimed at developing science, math, and leadership skills among African American boys ages 4-8 in Southeast Washington DC.2002-presentVice Chairperson, Board of Directors, The Rebecca Project of Human Rights, a Washington DC-based national legal and advocacy organization for low-income families.OTHER FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDSCity University of New York, Graduate School and University CenterPresident‟s Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2004-2005Writing Fellowship, 2003-2005Pamela Galiber Award for Outstanding African American Student, 2002-2003Dean K. Harrison Award, 2002-2003, 2005-2006Student Summer Reconnaissance Award, 2001Presidential Fellowship, 1998-2002Hunter College, CUNY-Caribbean Exchange ProgramField Research Grant, 2002-2003, 2004-2005University of Florida, Gainesville, Center for Latin American StudiesLibrary Travel Grant, 2002Brown UniversityWilliam Gaston Scholarship for excellence in Afro-American Studies, 1992
Andrea Jean Queeley
Andrea Jean Queeley
Andrea Jean Queeley, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. Dr. Queeley is also Associate Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.
Dr. Queeley's research interests include Caribbean migration, Cuba, African diaspora, race, social inequality, black popular culture, and anthropological fieldwork. Specifically, her research concerns African diasporic subject formation, migration, and the negotiation of globalized structural inequalities. Situating these processes within the specificities of national and international political moments, she explores questions of social hierarchy and diversity within the African diaspora. She is particularly interested in the social and economic conditions under which racialized subjects assert their cultural identities and how such assertions shift over time.
Dr. Queeley has conducted research in eastern Cuba among people of English-speaking Caribbean descent in which she explores narratives of jamaicano identity and the reemergence of Anglophone Caribbean institutions during Cuba's Special Period. She has also conducted research in the urban United States and is intrigued by the extent to which racialized categories are disrupted and/or reinforced by the globalization and mass consumption of multi-rooted black popular culture. Thus, in addition to forthcoming chapters on West Indian Cuban cultural citizenship and negotiating racial and national identity in the field, she has published work exploring the social context in which recurrent images in mainstream hip hop culture are disseminated.
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Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, LC 303B
Email: aqueeley@fiu.edu
Telephone: 305.348.6289
QUOTED: "This nuanced study contributes new perspectives on historical black identity formation and contemporary activism in Cuba."
"highly recommended."
Queeley, Andrea J.: Rescuing our roots: the African Anglo-Caribbean diaspora in contemporary Cuba
B.A. Lucero
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Queeley, Andrea J. Rescuing our roots: the African Anglo-Caribbean diaspora in contemporary Cuba. University Press of Florida, 2015. 258p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813061092 cloth, $74.95
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In this account of the evolving subjectivities of black Anglo-Caribbean--descended people in contemporary eastern Cuba, Queeley (anthropology and African diaspora studies, Florida International Univ.) argues that Anglo-Caribbean Cubans imagined themselves differently in response to changing political and economic conditions. The author draws on a wealth of secondary scholarship in the first two chapters to show that following their arrival to Cuba in the first third of the 20th century, British West Indian workers articulated their identities in reference to the politics of respectability The triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 fundamentally transformed Anglo-Caribbean Cuban subjectivities by forcing them to downplay racial and diasporic affinities in favor of the revolutionary ideology of socialist equality. The remaining three chapters examine the ways the economic catastrophe brought by the collapse of the Soviet Union facilitated the resurgence of Anglo-Caribbean identities as a strategy for survival and self-help in the face of rising racial inequality. In the concluding chapter, Queeley extends the discussion of the cultural impact of economic and political change forward by exploring 21st-century black subject-making. This nuanced study contributes new perspectives on historical black identity formation and contemporary activism in Cuba. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.--B. A. Lucero, University of Texas-Pan American
Queeley, Andrea J. Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2015, pp.256, ISBN: 0813061091. Based on fieldwork in Santiago and Guantánamo, this book looks at local and regional identity formations as well as racial politics in revolutionary Cuba. Hence, the author argues that as the island experienced a resurgence in racism due in part to the emergence ofthe dual economy and the reliance on tourism, Anglo-Caribbean Cubans revitalized their communities and sought transnational connections not just in the hope of material support but also to challenge the association between Blackness, inferiority, and immorality as their desire for social mobility, political engagement, and a better economic situation operated alongside the fight for Black respectability. The book also offers a view of strategies and modes of Black belonging that transcend ideological, temporal, and spatial boundaries. The author is an assistant professor of anthropology and African diaspora studies at Florida International University. 569 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.9, no.1, March 2016