Nancy Raquel Mirabal

Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor in the American Studies Department and Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Nancy is an historian who has published widely in the fields of Afro-diasporic, gentrification, and spatial studies. She is the author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017) and co-editor of Keywords for Latina/o Studies (NYU Press, 2017). She is working on two projects: Whiteness as Gentrification and a co-authored text with Amanda Huron and Manuel Mendez, Radical Lens: Visual Culture and the Racial Politics of Place in Washington DC, 1973-1999.

She is a recipient of several grants and awards, including the Scholar in Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, University Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley; Social Science Research Council International Migration Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant; and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. In 2021 Mirabal was named a University of Maryland Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year.