Lorgia García Peña

Lorgia García Peña is an ethnic studies scholar, activist, and professor at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the department of African American studies at Princeton University. She formerly served as Mellon professor of studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora at Tufts University from 2021 to 2023. She became a subject of national attention after being denied tenure at Harvard University, where she taught from 2013 to 2021. She is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and Archives of Contradiction and Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective.