Education
Ph.D. – New York University 2007
M.A. – New York University 2002
B.A. – Yale University 1999

Current Departmental Service
Undergraduate Education Committee
Space Committee

Interests and Research
Natasha Lightfoot, assistant professor, specializes in emancipation, race, and labor studies within the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History.  She is currently working on a project tracing grassroots resistance and identity formation among emancipated people in Antigua.

Affiliations
Member, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Member, The Conference on Latin American History
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Organization of American Historians

Courses
Comparative Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
Senior Thesis Seminar

Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition and Resistance Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University, 2008 [will be in residence May 2009] Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, The American Antiquarian Society, 2006 Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellowship, New York University, 2000-2005
Dean's Fellowship, New York University, 2000-2005
Tinker Grant for Caribbean Field Research, New York University, 2002

Scholarly Articles
“If Not Now, When?: Lessons Learned from GSOC’S 2005-6 Strike,” in The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace, eds. Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm and Andrew Ross (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 149-161
“The History of Mary Prince as a Historical Document of Slavery in Antigua and the British Empire,” in Antigua & Barbuda International Literary Festival  Magazine, no. 2, 28-32.
“Sunday Marketing, Contestations over Time, and Visions of Freedom among Enslaved Antiguans after 1800,” in The C.L.R. James Journal:A Review of Caribbean Ideas, Vol. 12, no. 1
“The Significance of The Bronx African American History Project to a Bronx African-American
Native,” in The Bronx County Historical Society Journal, Vol. XLII, no. 2
“Antigua and Barbuda,” Encyclopedia of the Developing World, vol. 1, ed. Thomas Leonard.
New York: Routledge, 2005, 55-57
“Four Works on the African Diaspora: A Collective Review Essay,” in Transforming Anthropology, Vol. 11, no. 1 (2002), 55-57.  Review of D.C. Hine and J. McLeod, eds. Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (1999)