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Westenley Alcenat

Westenley Alcenat

Historian, Educator, and Citizen-scholar


Westenley Alcenat is a scholar, teacher, mentor, and academic consultant. He is an Assistant Professor of History, Urban Studies & American Studies at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY and teaches courses on nineteenth century United States, Atlantic, and Afro-Caribbean history. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate and a Visiting Assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies (2020–2021). Wes is a native of Haiti and partly grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lives in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn with his beloved pet rabbit, BB King.


Contributions to HumansandNature.org:
  • First as Tragedy, Then as _____
    A response to "How can we live respectfully with the land and with one another?" 

Noteworthy Links:
  • Westenley Alcenat
    Learn more about Westenley Alcenat's teaching and read more of his writings at his website.
  • Black Lives and the Fourth of July
    Read more from Westenley Alcenat in The Nation.

  • The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion
    Read more from Westenley Alcenat.

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