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Kaneesha Parsard’s research concerns legacies of slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean and broader Americas. Her first book project, “An Illicit Wage,” tracks 19th- and 20th-century Caribbean cultural repertoires that cast doubt on wage labor as the condition of freedom. Her scholarship can be found in the American Quarterly, Small Axe, and the South Atlantic Quarterly. Parsard is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, affiliate faculty at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and a member of the Committee for Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.