Angela Haddad is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is currently completing a dissertation titled “Migration, Representation, and Social Formation between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Caribbean Basin, 1870-1950.” This project argues that Arab migration to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti created ethno-racial and social imaginaries that emerged outside the violence of direct colonialism but across and within disparate empires, nationalisms, and transregional connections. Through close rhetorical analysis of travelogs, novels, cultural journals, newspapers, and lectures from 1870 to 1950, the project traces the ways in which migrants mobilized civilizational tropes circulating in Beirut- and Cairo-based journals as well as in Arab and Arabic print productions in the Americas to engage with local Caribbean thought. Prior to joining NYU, she earned her BA from the University of Michigan and MA from Georgetown University. Additionally, she is a literary and freelance translator from Arabic into English.