Daniel O. Mosquera

Daniel O. Mosquera is currently professor emeritus of Latin American, Hispanic, and Caribbean Studies at Union College, where he taught for 26 years. He has published on Latin American colonial historiography and transatlantic studies, popular culture, religion, and politics, film and cultural studies, the symbolic and environmental politics of waste, and on cultural and race theory and remains active as a scholar and member of the Cap District community. He has also directed and co-produced two documentaries on Afro Colombian (chocoano) religious practices and popular culture. He is a former member of the editorial board in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and currently serves in the journal’s Advisory Board. This is his second stint as a member of the Sanctuary’s Board of Directors.