Joao Gabriel

Peer-reviewed articles

• 2021 “The Impossible Transition: Becoming a Man, Remaining the Other.” Monde commun 7, no. 2 : 92–105. https://doi.org/10.3917/mocco.007.0092
• 2019 “‘Free Our Brothers!’: On the Politicization of Slavery in Libya within the French Context”. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2019; 118 (3): 686–693. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-7616260

Book Review

• 2024 “On The Making of Race in the Caribbean: From the Early Modern Period to the Present, edited by Marine Cellier, Amina Damerdjii, and Sylvain Lloret.” Annales. History and Social Sciences, May 2024.

Book Chapters

• 2016 “In Defense of a Radical Trans Perspective in the French Context.” In Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions, edited by Sandeep Bakshi, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco. Oxford: Counterpress.

Roundtable

• 2024 Şahin Açıkgöz et al., “Roundtable: Queer/Trans of Color Transits and the Imaginaries of Racial Capitalism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 123, no. 1 (January): 157–182. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10920687

Encyclopedia Entry 

• Forthcoming “Oruno Denis Lara, or History in the Service of an Anticolonial Critique.” In Encyclopedia of Historiographies: Africa, the Americas, Asia, vol. 2. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco.

Other Publications

• 2023 “Global Blackness, Class Politics and the Dilemmas of Solidarity.” The Funambulist, no. 46 (February 15): Questioning Our Solidarities. Link

Instructor of Record

• Imperialism and Sexual Politics in the Global South, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2025
• Introduction to the Study of Colonialism, Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe, Spring 2023 & Spring 2025

Teaching Assistant

• Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2024 (Katherine Hindmarch-Watson)
• Chronicling the Caribbean (17th–20th C.), Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2021 (Sasha Turner)
• Introduction to African History (18th–20th C.), Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2020 (Elizabeth Thornberry)

Keynote Speaker

• 2023 “Imperialism and Heterosexuality: Reflecting on a Blind Spot,” Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. March 23.

Invited Researcher

• 2024 Invitation by French Member of Parliament Danièle Obono to a National Assembly Conference: “Lutter contre le racisme en France et en Europe”. Paris, France. March 21. Link

Conference Papers

• 2026 “The Paradox of Freedom: Prison and the French Abolition of Slavery”, The 71th annual conference of the Society for French Historical Studies. Philadelphia. March 5-8.
• 2025 “Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Memory Constructions”. Conference: Crossed Perspectives on Algeria, France, and the Caribbean. Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe. April 11-12.
• 2023 “France versus Overseas Territories: a sophisticated form of violence”. Conference: Working on Violence. Paris. November 24-25. Link
• “Prison against the whip: discipline, punishment, and conflicts of interest during the French debates over the abolition of slavery in the 1840s”. The 47th annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. Martinique. May 4-6.
• 2022 “Racism, Imperialism and Authoritarian Balances in Democracy in the Twenty-First Century”. Amath Dansokho Colloquium, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. January 26-28.
• 2021 “Saving exploitation: prison in the French debates about the abolition of Slavery”. The 45th annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Online edition. May 31st-June 4th.
• 2020 “Beyond queer and feminist anti-racism”. Graduate Conference, Seeing More Queerly in the 21st Century. University of Miami. Miami. February 20-21.
• 2019 “Becoming the ‘Black man’: How Transitioning Sheds Light on Capitalism's Racial Dynamics”. Transgender: Intersectional/International Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. May 28-29.

Roundtable

• 2025 “Black Freedoms and Unfreedoms”. Roundtable of the international Conference Black France Noire. Columbia Global Centers in Paris. Paris. May 21-23.
• 2024 “The afterlives of Monique Wittig”. Université Paris 8. Paris.December 13-14.
• “Decolonizing knowledge production”. 11th Edition of Mondes En Vue, the Guadeloupe International Human Rights Film Festival. Memorial ACTe – Caribbean Centre for Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery. Guadeloupe. October 19.
• 2023 “An exploration of Trans Materialisms”. Roundtable. Haute école d'art et de design. Geneva. May 19.
• 2022 “Academic Masculinity/ies in the Field of French History”. The 49th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History. Victoria, British Columbia. November 3-5.
• 2019 “Masculinities: Difficult Questions That Cut Deep”. Roundtable. International Film Festival on Human Rights. Geneva. March 11.
• 2018 “Trans Revolutionary Politics in Neoliberal Times”. Queer Studies: Here, There and Elsewhere Conference. Columbia Global Center. Paris. December 7. Link

Seminar series

• 2022 “Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism: Reflections on the Guadeloupean Translations of these International Movements”. CAGI/Coreca. Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe. May 30th. Link
• 2021 “Disciplinary Reforms, Exploitation and Gender in French Colonies under the July Monarchy”. Doctoral Workshop on Gender and Feminisms in Latin America, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. January 18.

Media: Public History and Public Engagement

• 2024 Interview appearance in a short documentary by the French rapper Booska P exploring the everyday lives of Guadeloupean people. July 19. Link
• 2022 Guest Speaker, Canal 10 Television (Guadeloupe). Invited to discuss “The Face of Poverty” in Guadeloupe on Le Focus, the program hosted by Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette. Guadeloupe. July 18. Link
• 2022 Guest Speaker, The Chairman Podcast (France). Invited to discuss the history of Guadeloupe, drawing on historical, cultural, and socio-political analysis. February 9. Link
• 2021 Guest Speaker, Le Mwakasï Podcast (Guadeloupe-France). Invited to discuss the history of anticolonial struggles in Guadeloupe from the 1960s to the 1980s. January 5. Link

• 2025 – Member of the Black Archipelago Project | Project Directors: Brandi T. Summers (Columbia University); N.D.B Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)
• 2024 – to present Member of the editorial board of Plurivers, a multilingual publication, emerging from the Observatoire Terre Monde, on decolonial ecology grounded in Caribbean experiences.
• 2017 Queer of Color Formations and Translocal Spaces in Europe. Research Residency, University of California, Irvine. January- March. Conveners: Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley), Fatima El-Tayeb (Yale); Jin Haritaworn (York University).
• 2014 – 2016 Member of the editorial committee of AssiégéEs, the first journal created by queer and trans people of color based in France.
• 2013 – to present Member of the Decolonizing Sexuality Network (DSN), an international collective of Queer of Color scholars, artists, and activists
• 2010 – 2013 Member of EFiGiES, organization of scholars in defense of Gender Studies in French Academia.

• 2015 – 2019: Member of the United Front of Immigrant and Working-Class Neighborhoods | Front Uni des Immigrations et des Quartiers Populaires. Grassroots organization deeply rooted in working-class neighborhoods across several French cities, working to build connections between anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles through the development of concrete solidarities among immigrants, people of color, and exploited groups (workers and the unemployed) of all backgrounds, as well as through popular education in critical theories and strategies for struggle against racial capitalism. Link
• 2018 – 2021: Member of the Ligue Panafricaine-Umoja | an international Pan-African organization working toward the unification of the African diaspora and supporting African progressive organizations in Burkina Faso, the Republic of Congo, Niger, Senegal, and Chad. Link
• 2021 – to present: Member of the Alyans Nasyonal Gwadloup | a Guadeloupean nationalist organization advocating for political autonomy or independence from France.
• 2023 – to present: Volunteer Advocate, La Cimade | Americas Region (Guadeloupe)
• Assisted migrants and asylum seekers with administrative and legal procedures.
• Contributed to public awareness campaigns denouncing racism, xenophobia and the use of immigration detention in French overseas territories Link
• Collaborated in the organization of conferences with leading scholars working on migration and related transnational dynamics. Link

• 2025 Women, Gender & Sexuality Teaching Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University)
• 2024 Women, Gender & Sexuality Research Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University)
• 2023 Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Research Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University)
• 2023 Millstone Fellowship (Western Society for French History)

• 2010-2022 | Le Blog de Joao Link
• Established a blog that bridges rigorous academic scholarship with public-facing engagement, focusing on decolonial, marxist, and politically-informed humanities research. Key themes include Caribbean history, Afro-diasporic politics in Europe, class struggle, migration, gender/race/sexuality intersections, and militant solidarity practices.