Sharika D. Crawford
Sharika D. Crawford, PhD, is a historian of modern Latin America, specializing in Colombia and the circum-Caribbean. Currently, she holds the inaugural Speedwell Professor of International Studies and is Professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Her primary research focuses on modern Latin America, specifically, Colombia and the interstitial places in the circum-Caribbean like the Archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia. Her 2020 monograph The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press) was given an honorable mention by the Association of Caribbean Historians 2021 Elsa Goveia Book Prize Committee. She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming Understanding and Teaching Modern Latin American History, which will be available at the University of Wisconsin Press in early 2026.