Monika Gosin is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, with specializations in African American and Latinx relations; and Afro-Cuban and other Afro-Latinx immigrant experiences. Prior to her appointment at UCSD in June 2023, she was Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Latin American Studies at the College of William & Mary. Gosin is the author of The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami (Cornell University Press, 2019), which situates Black Cubans within a historical analysis of tense relations between African Americans and (white) Cuban Americans in Miami. Her further work on Afro-Cuban Afrolatinidades has been published in journals such as Latino Studies and Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal as well as in edited volumes such as Afro-Latinos in Movement (Palgrave, 2016), and Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States (University of Arizona Press, 2022).
