Reena N. Goldthree PhD

Roles:
Author, Section Editor

Editorial groups:
Associate Editors

Affiliation:
African American Studies, Princeton University

Country:
United States

Biography

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Reena N. Goldthree is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular interests in the history of social movements, labor and migration, and Caribbean feminism. Goldthree is the author of Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2025). Drawing on archival sources from the Caribbean, England, and United States, the book reveals how the crisis of World War I transformed Afro-Caribbeans’ understanding of, and engagements with, the British Empire. Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, The American Historian, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and Radical Teacher. She has also published peer-reviewed essays in New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018), Caribbean Military Encounters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Teaching American Studies (University of Kansas Press, 2021), and Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diasporas (University of Illinois Press, 2010). Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the American Historical Association, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Ford Foundation, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright.