Sophia Monegro will join us in academic year 2025-2026 as our inaugural CRE2Postdoctoral Fellow!
Dr. Monegro is a literary scholar working at the intersection of Black Women’s Intellectual History, Atlantic Studies, and Dominican Studies. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Monegro is a Fulbright Student Researcher in the Dominican Republic and a Mellon Mays Fellow. Monegro’s dissertation reads the subtexts of archival documents to trace Black women’s intellectual contributions to Caribbean radicalism from Spanish colonial slavery in Santo Domingo to the Dominican Republic and Haiti in the 19th century. Working with African American descendant communities on the island and in the diaspora, Monegro’s archival preservation work and research practices are grounded in the community-based and material needs of Black Dominicans. She is expected to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2025.
This marks a major milestone for CRE2 as we welcome the very first scholar to hold this fellowship. Dr. Monegro brings a record of scholarly excellence and a deep commitment to CRE2’s mission of advancing research grounded in the study of race, ethnicity, and equity.
We are excited for the many ways Dr. Monegro will contribute to the intellectual life of CRE2 and the broader university community.