Alyssa A. L. James
Pronouns She / Her / Hers
Email alyssaj@usc.edu
Biography
Alyssa A. L. James is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research explores colonial and commodity histories and their afterlives in the French Caribbean. Her current book project, Martinique in the Time of Coffee: Heritage, Revival, and the Recursive Caribbean, examines how heritage becomes both a promise and a problem in efforts to realize political and economic futures through agricultural revival. She is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities.
A Jamaican Canadian scholar and writer from Toronto, Dr. James earned her Ph.D. in...
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