Dr. Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She also serves as Associate Director for the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies. She is a scholar of the African Diaspora, with a focus on 20th century Caribbean and African-American history. Her interests include social movements, racial capitalism, Black Internationalism, and the politics of solidarity. Her book, Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana, explores the historical possibility of a movement forged by those at the edges of empire in the midst of economic, political, and environmental crises, and is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in July 2026. Dr. Burrowes was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Carter G. Woodson Institute in 2015.