Margarita Lila Rosa is a public scholar, curator, presenter and creative strategist specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black Atlantic history and contemporary art.
Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa was born in Tenares, Dominican Republic, in 1993. Raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Rosa received her Ph. D from Princeton University. From 2021-2023, Dr. Rosa was a Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, where she taught courses on gender and rebellion in the Black Atlantic.
Dr. Rosa is currently based in Harlem, NY.
Art criticism by Dr. Rosa has appeared in i-D Vice, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Frieze, as well as several exhibition catalogues and book chapters. Dr. Rosa’s historical academic scholarship has been published in The Journal of African American History, Slavery & Abolition, The Black Scholar, and PhiloSOPHIA.
