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Micah Wright
Micah Wright
Assistant Professor, Ad Hoc Program Specialist
- Department(s): History
- Office Location: 5241
- Phone: +12624727152
- Email: wrightm@uww.edu
Ph.D, History, Texas A&M University (2020)
M.A., World History, Notheastern University (2008)
B.A. History and English, University of Central Florida (2006)
Micah Wright is an Assistant Professor of History and teaches courses in Latin American, U.S., and World History. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. His dissertation, “Puerto Rico and U.S. Empire in the Caribbean, 1898-1936,” was awarded an Oxford University Press USA International History Dissertation Prize honorable mention (2022). Dr. Wright's research focuses on inter-American relations, U.S. military occupations, and the influence of colonial peoples on U.S. politics in the twentieth century. He is working on a book manuscript based on that work. His scholarship has also been published in a number of journals, including Gender & History, The Latin Americanist, and Caribbean Studies.
Select Publications:
HISTRY 125 - AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877
HISTRY 322 - UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS AND EMPIRE, 1790 TO RECENT PAST
HISTRY 342 - CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
HISTRY 343 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA
HISTRY 349 - U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS
M.A., World History, Notheastern University (2008)
B.A. History and English, University of Central Florida (2006)
Micah Wright is an Assistant Professor of History and teaches courses in Latin American, U.S., and World History. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. His dissertation, “Puerto Rico and U.S. Empire in the Caribbean, 1898-1936,” was awarded an Oxford University Press USA International History Dissertation Prize honorable mention (2022). Dr. Wright's research focuses on inter-American relations, U.S. military occupations, and the influence of colonial peoples on U.S. politics in the twentieth century. He is working on a book manuscript based on that work. His scholarship has also been published in a number of journals, including Gender & History, The Latin Americanist, and Caribbean Studies.
Select Publications:
- “‘Of White Descendant, but not of Pure White Race’: Mobilization, Segregation, and Constructions of Whiteness in Puerto Rico, 1898-1920s” in Conscription in the Global Twentieth Century, ed. Amy J. Rutenberg (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2026), forthcoming.
- “Pedro ‘Pete’ Augusto del Valle: The Americanization of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Far Right” The Latin Americanist 67, no. 1 (March, 2023): 78-95.
- “‘Protection Against the Lust of Men:’ Progressivism, Prostitution, and Rape in the Dominican Republic under U.S. Occupation, 1916-1924” Gender & History 28, no. 3 (November, 2016): 623-640
- “Building an Occupation: Puerto Rican Laborers in the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 13, no. 3 (November, 2016): 83-103
- “‘An Epidemic of Negrophobia’: Blackness and the Legacy of the U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic” The Black Scholar 45, no. 2 (Summer, 2015): 21-33
- “Unilateral Pan-Americanism: Wilsonianism and the American Occupation of Chiriquí, 1918-1920” Diplomacy & Statecraft 26, no. 1 (Spring, 2015): 46-64
- “Mobilization, Partisanship, and Political Party Dynamics in Puerto Rico, 1917-1920s” Caribbean Studies 42, no. 2 (July-December 2014): 41-70
- “¿Hermanos latinos o extranjeros perniciosos?: Los puertorriqueños en la República Dominicana bajo la Ocupación Militar Norteamericana de 1916-1924” Clío: Órgano de la Academia Dominicana de la Historia 83, no. 188 (julio-diciembre, 2014): 105-154
HISTRY 125 - AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877
HISTRY 322 - UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS AND EMPIRE, 1790 TO RECENT PAST
HISTRY 342 - CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
HISTRY 343 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA
HISTRY 349 - U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS