María Julia Hernández Sáez is a historian of the United States Empire focusing on anti-communist surveillance and persecution, and anti-colonial movements. Her master’s thesis “Subversive Subjects: Communist Women in Puerto Rico, 1946-1958,” looked at individual and collective forms of communist women’s organizing during Puerto Rico’s Cold War. After completing her master's degree, she worked as a Research Associate at the City University of New York Dominican Studies Institute, where she researched 19th and 20th century Dominican Republic history and politics, focusing on migration, race, archival methods, community building, and education. She is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington’s History Department, researching the Caribbean and Pacific’s connected histories of anti-colonial organizing and surveillance under the United States and British Empires.
