Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa

List of Publications

Academic Articles



2023. Margarita Rosa, ‘“They Won’t Let Me Alone”: Riotous Black Women ​and the Archival Offerings of Desire and Desperation,’ Journal of African ​American History, December 2023 Issue (Volume 108, Number 4.)






2020. Margarita Rosa, “Filial freedoms, ambiguous wombs: Partus ​Sequitur Ventrem and the 1871 Brazilian free womb law,” Slavery & ​Abolition, 41:2, 377-394.


Book Reviews


2021. Margarita Rosa, “Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism ​and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History by Alys Eve Weinbaum and: ​The Assisted Reproduction of Race by Camisha A. Russell,” ​PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, 10:2, 298-305.


2021. Margarita Rosa, “Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity ​and the Afterlives of Rights, by Samantha Pinto.” Durham and London: ​Duke University Press, 2020,” The Black Scholar, 51:4, 56-9.



Art History


2024. Margarita Rosa, Abdias do Nascimento, Artist Page, Museum of ​Modern Art.


2023. Margarita Rosa, “Ilana Savdie’s Abstract Paintings Embrace the ​Uncanny,” i-D Vice.


2023. Margarita Rosa, “Wynnie Mynerva’s Radical Reclamation of the ​Origin Story


at the New Museum,” Hyperallergic.


2023. Margarita Rosa, “A painter reimagines his Haitian childhood through ​magical realism: an interview with Didier William,” i-D Vice.


2023. Margarita Rosa, ‘Mike Henderson: After the Fire,’ Brooklyn Rail.


2023. Margarita Rosa, “Mildred Howard’s Black Temporal Geographies, Or ​The Recuperation of the Body Through Time.” Blood, Sweat and Tears, ​edited by Luke Williams, ICA San Jose


2023. Margarita Rosa, “Nova,” for Yowshien Kuo catalogue.


2022. Margarita Rosa, “Frida Orupabo: Closed Up Like a Fist,” Brooklyn Rail.


2022. Margarita Rosa, “The Body as an Altar in Space,” P’al Patio: ​Catalogue, Calderón Gallery.


2022. Margarita Rosa, “Danielle Dean’s Parallel Amazons,” Frieze.


2021. Winner of the Du-Bois Wells Prize from the African American Intellectual History Society. Preliminary Draft of Article

2024. Nominated for the American Association of Black Women Historians Article Prize. Nominated by JAAH Editors.