Sophia Monegro is a literary scholar working at the intersection of Black Women’s Intellectual History, Atlantic Studies, and Dominican Studies. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Monegro is a Fulbright Student Researcher in the Dominican Republic and a Mellon Mays Fellow. Monegro’s dissertation reads the subtexts of archival documents to trace Black women’s intellectual contributions to Caribbean radicalism from Spanish colonial slavery in Santo Domingo to the Dominican Republic and Haiti in the 19th century. Working with African American descendant communities on the island and in the diaspora, Monegro’s archival preservation work and research practices are grounded in the community-based and material needs of Black Dominicans.