Zaira Simone-Thompson is a assistant professor in the African American Studies department. A geographer, her work and teaching centers on contemporary experiences and representations of slavery, colonialism and uneven development in the Caribbean. Her dissertation, “A Discursive Geography of Repair: Exploring Regional and National Claims for Reparative Justice in the Caribbean” examines the symbolic and material forces of reparative claims in Barbados. 

 

Zaira embraces teaching as a form of active engagement and therefore encourages students to approach the course material as a political “tool box” and more importantly to show up as their most authentic selves.