Benita Sampedro

Benita Sampedro Vizcaya is Professor of Spanish Colonial Studies at Hofstra University. Her research engages –academically and politically— with Spanish colonial pasts and presents, archives, and legacies, both in Africa and in Latin America. She is invested in revisiting colonial links within and beyond the frame of the multiple Spanish imperial Atlantic and global networks, and has published widely on the politics and processes of decolonization, colonial medicine, colonial carceral systems, colonial archives, border mobility, and on the ruins of late colonial modernity.