Graduate Student Affiliate
David Roldán Eugenio
- Campus: NB
- Email: david.roldan@rutgers.edu
- PhD or MA: PhD
- School : SAS
- Department: Spanish and Portuguese
- Project: Transatlatic cultural relations between Spain and Cuba prior the Cuban Revolution
- Research Areas (themes, countries): 19th-20th century Spain and Cuba, Visual Culture, Performance and Corporeality, Flamenco and nacional-flamenquismo during Franco's dictatorship in Spain (1939-75)
- Dissertation Title: Gypsified Minorities on the Atlantic Stage: Visualizing and Performing Alternative Identities in Spain and Cuba (1900-1959)
- Abstract of Dissertation Work: This transatlantic study shows how “Gypsification” enabled queer, non-white, and (neo)colonized minorities in pre-revolutionary Cuba to shape novel conceptualizations of collective identity and sociocultural solidarity.
