Dr. Wes Alcenat is an Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Scripps College. Recently serving as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and a Visiting Assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies, Dr. Alcenat is also an Associate Fellow at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in History from Columbia University in addition to an MPhil and MA in American History from Columbia. He is a historian of the nineteenth-century U.S. and Caribbean.