Aaron Kamugisha (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
Bewildering Coloniality: Austin Clarke and the Twentieth Century Black Atlantic World
Smith College
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Aaron Kamugisha drafted the introduction and three chapters of his work in progress, Bewildering Coloniality: Austin Clarke and the Twentieth Century Black World. He completed an edited volume with Carlos Garrido Castellano and Therese Hadchity, entitled Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Modernisms (Brill, forthcoming, 2026). He also undertook a considerable amount of new research on the history of Barbados and its role in the genesis of transatlantic racial capitalism.