Nicole Ramsey

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

Interdisciplinary cultural studies scholar specializing in the intersections of race, gender, nation, and diaspora in Central America and the Caribbean.

Nicole Ramsey is an assistant professor of Latina/o Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research critically examines how Black Belizeans, including Creoles and Garinagu, navigate identity, belonging, and citizenship through national commemoration, digital spaces, migration, and tourism.

Her current book project, Under the Shade I Flourish, explores Belize as a critical site for understanding Black diaspora dynamics in Central America, focusing on how Black and Indigenous communities perform identity within the framework of a postcolonial, multicultural state.

She has published in Callaloo and Small Axe. She is the co-organizer and co-founder of the Black Central Americas Project, a digital public humanities initiative designed to provide a transdisciplinary and transnational platform to foster discourse and host innovative programming in the field of Black Central American Studies.

As a community cultural archivist engaged in public scholarship and community-centered work, she works to collect and preserve oral histories of Caribbean and Black Central American populations in Los Angeles and California more broadly.