# Yesenia Barragan ![Yesenia Barragan](/sites/g/files/omnuum6516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/alariconference/files/screen_shot_2019-09-24_at_3.05.47_pm.png?itok=2p5vfbV0) location\_on 223A Van Dyck Hall Rutgers University smartphone [848-932-8355](tel:848-932-8355) email Yesenia Barragan is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She specializes in the transnational history of race, gender, slavery, and emancipation in Afro-Latin America and the African diaspora in the Americas. Her current book project, *Frontiers of Freedom: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific*, is a social, political, and geographical study of the gradual abolition of chattel slavery and the post-emancipation era in the majority-black Colombian Pacific, the largest area in the Americas inhabited primarily by people of African descent. - ## People Directory [Speakers](/people-directory/speakers)