Raquel Alicia Otheguy (O-TEH-ghee) is Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, specializing in the history of Latin America, the Caribbean, Latinos in the United States, and the African Diaspora. She is particularly interested in histories of race, empire, migration, and education. Otheguy’s first book, Black Freedom and Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Cuba was published in January of 2025 by the University of Florida Press. Her research is based on material gathered in archives across Cuba and the United States, and she has presented her work at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, including at meetings of the Association of Caribbean Historians, the American Educational Research Association, the American Historical Association, the History of Education Society, and the Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition. Otheguy was a 2020 National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellow. At BCC, she helped create the Black and Latino Studies Option, and she teaches courses on the history of Latin America (HIS 31), the Caribbean (HIS 39), and Latinos in the United States (HIS 26). She received her Ph.D. in History from Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 2016 and her B.A. in History from Columbia University. Otheguy is a U.S.-born Latina and a native speaker of Spanish and English.

Raquel Alicia Otheguy (O-TE-gui) es profesora en el departamento de historia del Bronx Community College de la City University of New York (CUNY). Se especializa en la historia de Latinoamerica, el Caribe, los latinos en los Estados Unidos, y la diaspora africana. Su primer libro, Black Freedom and Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, fue publicado en enero del 2025 por la University of Florida Press. Para la investigación del tema, Otheguy utilizó fuentes originales halladas en archivos de Cuba y Estados Unidos. Otheguy ha presentado su trabajo en jornadas en Estados Unidos y el extranjero, entre ellas los congresos de la Asociación de Historiadores Caribeños, American Educational Research Association, American Historical Association, History of Education Society, y Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition. En el año 2000, Otheguy recibió la beca post-doctoral de la National Academy of Education (Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship). En Bronx Community College, Otheguy colaboró con el grupo de trabajo que creó la especialización sobre estudios negros y latinos, y enseña cursos sobre la historia de Latinoamerica (HIS 31), el Caribe (HIS 39), y los latinos en los Estados Unidos (HIS 26). Otheguy se doctoró en historia por la Stony Brook University (2016) y sacó su licenciatura en historia en Columbia University. Otheguy es latina nacida en los Estados Unidos, y sus lenguas maternas son el inglés y el español.

Education:

PhD, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

MA, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

BA, Columbia University

Recent Courses Taught:

HIS 26: History of Latinos in the United States

HIS 39: History of the Caribbean

HIS 31: Latin American History

HIS 10: History of the Modern World

Research Interests:

Latin America, the Caribbean, the African Diaspora, Latinos in the United States, Race and Slavery, Education, Immigration

Recent Honors and Awards:

2025                PSC CUNY Research Award (Cycle 56) B for “Colonial Students: Latinos in Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

2025                American Council of Learned Societies Community College Faculty Research Fellowship, Finalist & Microgrant Recipient

2025                Convivencia: A Symposium on Mentoring

2025                CUNY Next Gen Learning: Integrate AI, Civic Engagement or Sustainability into Pathways Award

2024                PSC-CUNY Research Award (Cycle 55)

2023                Faculty of Color Working Group Symposium

2022                CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) Faculty Publication Award

2022                PSC-CUNY Research Award (Cycle 53)

2020                National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Recent Publication:

 “Gender, Childhood, and Education in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean.” The Cambridge History of the Caribbean: Volume II, the Long Emancipation. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. University of Florida Press, January 2025.

"“Es de suponer que los maestros sean de la misma clase”: What a Nineteenth-Century Teaching Application Reveals about Race, Power, and Education in Colonial Cuba." Cuban Studies 49 (2020): 174-192. doi:10.1353/cub.2020.0012.

 “Miguel Gualba,” entry for the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Franklin W. Knight, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.