• PhD, University of Maryland, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2025

• AAUW Dissertation Fellowship (2024-2025)

LaPlace, Danielle. “Fever and Ague All Day: Black Labor, Disability, and Infrastructures of Empire in the Construction of the Panama Canal.” Critical Ethnic Studies 9, no. 2 (2026). 

LaPlace, Danielle. “‘You Would Watch Men Shake Gentlemen’: Chronic Malaria and West Indian Labor at the Isthmus of Panamá.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 54, no. 1 (2026): 275–89.