Department of History

Claudia Ojeda Rexach
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests
Puerto Rico; 20th century Caribbean history; surveillance studies; colonialism and empire; policing and police archives; historical memory; Public Humanities; archives and archival studies
Biography
Claudia Ojeda holds a bachelor of arts in History and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino/a Studies from Haverford College. Her research explores ties between liberalism and repression in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico through surveillance files compiled by the police against individuals involved in nationalist and pro-independence movements on the island.