Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington-Seattle. She holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies and another in Latin American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she also completed a History Ph.D. in 2004. Rodríguez-Silva's research focuses on racial identity formation, post-emancipation racial politics, and comparative colonial arrangements in the configuration of empires. 

Research/Teaching Areas: Atlantic World, Caribbean, Comparative Gender, Empire and Colonialism, Latin America, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Slavery

Current Projects/Research: Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva; Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World. Small Axe 1 July 2023; 27 (2 (71)): 110–121