Alumni Profile
A Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow (2024-2025) through NYU's Latinx Project, Troncoso’s, M.A. (they/she) was a Doctoral Candidate in the American Culture Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Troncoso’s fields of study include intersectionalities of race, gender, (queer) sexuality, Afro-Latinidad in the Caribbean and the United States, Black feminist theory, queer and trans theory, and Afro-Caribbean religions. Their dissertation project focuses on the transnational experiences of women, femmes and LGBTQ+ practitioners of Santeria and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico and how practitioners negotiate race, nationality, queerness and transness within sacred spaces. Their work also extends to Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Troncoso is a Solidarity Fellow of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, a multi-institutional Black feminist partnership that supports solidarity work in Black and Ethnic studies led by Drs. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez and Jessica Marie Johnson, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is also a coordinator of the Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies Rackham Workshop at the University of Michigan. Troncoso joins a legacy of scholar-practitioners committed to centering Blackness, queerness and spirituality in a larger effort to advance Afro-Latinx studies, queer and trans studies, and religious studies.
