Dr. Erika Denise Edwards is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  She is an expert on the black experience in Argentina.  Her forthcoming book Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic is a gendered analysis of the erasure of blackness in Argentina. She has been interviewed and consulted by The New York Times, National Geographic, La Voz del Interior, an Argentine newspaper, and most recently Pyaar to the People.  She has given numerous talks about her research at various institutions and organizations some of which include University of Southern Carolina, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.