Alysa Ghose

Biography

Dr Alysa Ghose (she/her) is a lecturer in Religious Studies and Decolonial Thought at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity. Her research focuses on how race, gender, sexuality, nation, and class come together in specifically in Cuba and the wider Caribbean and Latin America. Her forthcoming research will examine questions of political economy and reproductive citizenship in Havana. Alysa’s first book, tentatively titled Mothers, Spirits and Hustlers, examines Espiritismo Cruzado a Cuban tradition predicated on relationships between the living and the dead, and is currently in progress. While her previous research centred Afrodiasporic spiritual practices, Alysa is also making exciting headway on her next major research project which explores race, kinship, reproductive justice, and migration for contemporary Cubans.