Giovanna Violi

Bio

Degrees and Institutions: BA in History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), BA in Art History at UCLA, MA in Caribbean and Latin American Studies at University Collge London (UCL) 

Advisor: Dr. Terrence G. Peterson

Giovannna started studying Caribbean history during her undergraduate studies at UCLA, writing an honors thesis on artistic production in Haiti. She then researched 1930s-1940s Carnival practices in Trinidad and Tobago and the attempts of the colonial elite to censor them for her MA thesis. She is currently working on a dissertation about young Black Martinican women´s educational migration to France during the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on strategies to counter French colonial practices of exclusion and these women´s contributions to wider transnational networks as well as their homeland´s community.