At the 37th annual West Indian Literature conference at the University of Miami, Professor Dalleo was part of the two-part “Con/federating the Archipelago” panels organized by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann. These panels explored the parallels and distinctions between Antillean confederation of the 19th century and the West Indies Federation of the twentieth century.
His presentation, “Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti,” argued for Haiti’s occupation as a key even in shaping the desire for alternative to the nation-state in the mid-twentieth century Caribbean. This argument drew on the research from the book American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism.