I am an Assistant Professor at Trinity College, in the Department of Political Science. My teaching and research focus on race, colonialism, and temporality in Latin America. In my current project, I examine the development of race in the early modern Spanish Empire, with an emphasis on how anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim policies impacted the racialization of Black and Indigenous peoples.
My teaching interests broadly span the fields of political theory and Latin American studies. In my courses, I aim to have students explore how political theory can serve as both a tool for making sense of the world and for envisioning other ways of being and relating to one another. As a member of the Hic Rosa Collective, I have helped organize sessions of the Falsework School and the Summer Studios in Materialist & Decolonial (MAD) Politics & Aesthetics.
Gabriel Salgado 