Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Colón Women: West Indian Women in the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904-1914
Joan Flores is a PhD candidate in African Diaspora History at NYU. Her dissertation explores the lives and labors of West Indian women in Panama during the Canal construction, showing how these women—both those who migrated and those who stayed in the islands—participated in and imagined themselves as part of a diasporic community in communication and exchange with Panama. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards, including the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Grant, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, an AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, and the Howard Reece Prize for Best Paper in Diplomatic or Naval History. She holds a B.A. in Black Studies from Amherst College and an M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.