• PhD University at Buffalo
• MA University at Buffalo
• BA Spelman College

Taylor Coleman is an adjunct professor in the Department of Africana and American Studies. She is a graduate of the department's PhD program in American Studies (2023). She also earned her MA in Humanities at UB in 2017 and a BA in Spanish and International Studies from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. As a 2012 Fulbright grantee and a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow, Taylor's research has been funded to include Afro-Latin American history, Pan-Africanism in the Hispanophone Caribbean, and black twentieth-century sociopolitical movements. Her dissertation, entitled "Converging Diasporas: Garveyism, 'Afrolatinidades', and the Pan-Africanist Vision in the Hispanic Caribbean," explores the myriad ways in which Afro-Latin American communities in, beyond, and between the US, Latin America and the Caribbean, both responded to and engaged with central tenets of twentieth-century Garveyism. Through a focus on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, this work uniquely seeks to expand the understanding of global black freedom struggles by tracing how conceptions of blackness (and its relationship to the nation-state) are forged across cultural and linguistic boundaries.