Elena Schneider is a historian of Latin America and the Atlantic World. Her research explores the ways that war, trade, and slavery integrated the eighteenth-century Caribbean and Atlantic across regional and what would later become national boundaries. Her current book project, The Occupation of Havana, looks at the British invasion and occupation of Havana in 1762 as an episode in a long history of imperial rivalry over Cuba. It focuses on the central but often overlooked role that people of African descent played in this event, as well as in the shaping and reshaping of empires during the lead-up to the Age of Revolutions.
