Fredericton Faculty of Arts

Welcome Dr. Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Harrison McCain Visiting Professor

Author: Tabatha Armstrong

Posted on Feb 25, 2019

Category: Departmental , Other , Faculty , Arts , Research

Welcome to Dr. Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Harrison McCain Visiting Professor

Claudia Mosquera Rosera Labbé

The Department of Anthropology and the Faculty of Arts are pleased to welcome Dr. Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé as a Harrison McCain Visiting Professor from January to July 2019. Invited by Dr. Daniel Tubb in the Department of Anthropology, Dr. Mosquera Rosero-Labbé is one of Colombia’s preeminent established Black scholars, and an expert on the African Diaspora in the Black Americas.

Dr. Mosquera Rosero-Labbé is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. She is the Director of the Research Group on Racial Equality, Cultural Difference, Environmental Conflicts, and Racisms in the Black Americas (Idcarán). She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Laval and her MA from the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle).


Over twenty-two years, Dr. Mosquera Rosero-Labbé has built four lines of research:

  1. The relationship between ethnic-racial belonging and differential public policies;
  2. The production of knowledge produced by those who carry out social intervention;
  3. The effects of the Colombian armed conflict on the Black population, and the intersection with issues of historical reparations to the Black population and collective reparations for the damages of the Colombian internal armed conflict.
  4. The place of victims and perpetrators in the internal armed conflict and the impacts of the peace agreement between the government and the FARC-EP on historically excluded populations.

Dr. Mosquera has published three books and numerous book chapters, articles, and newspaper and magazine pieces at the national and international level. As a Harrison McCain Visiting Professor at UNB Fredericton, Dr. Mosquera Rosero-Labbé will spend six months of her sabbatical year working on various projects:


• Write two chapters for a book that draws on four years of research on the challenges to self-identification faced by Afro Colombian, Black, and Racialized communities in Colombia's Caribbean region of La Guajira;
• Begin to theorize a new project on extractivism and Black communities in Colombia;
• Work with Dr. Daniel Tubb on new collaborative research;
• Give a paper for the Rural Issues Workshop on Thu, Mar 14, 2019 about government programs and peasant issues in Colombia, Rm 202, Forestry and Geology at 4 pm.
• Participate in the Black History Month Celebrations hosted by the New Brunswick African Association by giving a 45-minute workshop between 11am - 2pm and participating in the evening gala on Saturday, February 23, 2019;
• Give a Guest Lecture for the International Development Studies Policy and Practice class on Tues, Feb. 26 at 10am;
• Give a Seminar “Capitalism by violent appropriation in Black communities in Colombia” February 25th, 4PM, MMH 201 at Saint Thomas University.
• Give a Public Lecture for the Faculty of Arts at the end of March, on a date, time, and topic to be announced;
• Participate in the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts from May 24 – 27, 2019;
• Be available for additional events or as a guest speaker for courses at UNB;
• And be available to meet with students and faculty.


Dr. Mosquera Rosero-Labbé will hold office hours by appointment at 13 MacAulay Lane, Annex C.
She can be reached at cpmosquerar@bt.unal.edu.co.