About Me:

Raised in Mexico City and Ponce Puerto Rico; retired naval cryptologist and stay-at-home Dad for four children. Entered PhD program at Rutgers 2013, currently ABD Candidate.

Occupation:

PhD Student and Part-Time Lecturer, Rutgers Departments of History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Education:

BA/MA World History, Monmouth University, West Long Branch NJ
PhD Colonial and Modern Latin American and Caribbean History (major), Global Comparative History (minor), Rutgers Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, New Brunswick NJ

Contact Information:

woodyoung@verizon.net
kevin.young@rutgers.edu
732-546-5538

Research Interests:

Macro/micro and comparative approaches. Emphasis on interplay of politics and cultural formations in (post-/neo-/de-) colonial and modern Latin America, Caribbean, and Atlantic world. Particular interest in indigenous societies; borderlands; imperialism, nationalism, and revolution; Cold War; race, ethnicity, and creole indigeneity.

Publications:

“Ambiguous Conquest in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World: The Personal Journey of Esteban de Dorantes,” in ‘Biodun Ogundayo and Julius Adekunle, eds., African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change (Rowman/Lexington, 2019), pp. 11-29.

Affiliation:

LASA, CLAH/AHA, Assn of Caribbean Historians, World History Assn