Professor of History at Temple University, was trained in the fields of African Diaspora and Latin American history, though his research and writing thus far has concentrated on the postemancipation Caribbean. He is particularly interested in recovering experiences, events and movements that highlight the region’s integral place within the history of the modern world. Indicative is my forthcoming history of Trinidad during World War II, years in which the United States established military bases on the British territory. Beyond showing how race, gender class complicated local encounters with US occupiers, this book reveals the colony to be an instructive scene for apprehending the how people across the globe have contended with the making of the American century. He is currently pursuing research on the early history of petroleum in the Circum-Caribbean; it will culminate in a book-length project that combines labor, environmental and cultural history and will push Caribbean historiography “beyond the plantation.”