Andrea Jean Queeley
Global and Sociocultural Studies
Office: LC 303B
Phone: 305.348.6289
Email: aqueeley@fiu.edu
Bio
A fundamentally interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist committed to community engagement, my work interrogates African diasporic subject formation with a focus on racial politics, migration and Blackness as cultural practice. Bridging linguistic, geographic, political and disciplinary divides, I am interested in how Black subjects navigate global anti-Blackness in contexts from economic crisis and the politics of representation in Cuba to maternal health justice in South Florida to strategic uses of material culture in New Orleans. Critical Race Theory and Black Feminism are the soil out of which my intellectual journey sprouted and have informed my ethnographic and theoretical engagements with diaspora, racial disparity and the practices of Blackness. I am currently completing an edited volume Gloria Rolando: Memory, Liberation and the African Diaspora Through Cuban Film (SUNY Press exp 2025) that brings together artists, intellectuals and culture workers based in Cuba, Panama, the UK and US. This project illustrates my commitment to creating space for those systematically marginalized by the imperial logics of knowledge production.
I have taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. My courses include: Intra-Caribbean migration, Latin American migration to the U.S., Race and Revolution in Cuba, the African Diaspora in Latin America, and Cultures of the Caribbean. Whether teaching courses that relate directly to my own research or those that more broadly address key topics in African Diaspora Studies and Cultural Anthropology, I adopt an interdisciplinary, student-centered approach. My primary goals are to: 1) facilitate students' critical engagement with a range of texts, 2) assist them in developing their research and writing skills, 3) expose them to innovative ethnographic methodologies, and 4) provide mentorship. In the classroom, I incorporate techniques designed to use writing as a tool for learning as well as group work and peer feedback to support the development of critical thinking skills.