Resources
Trinity College Library Resources
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive
Trinity in Trinidad Video Archives
Edith A. Graham Collection of Haitian Art
Trinity College Art Collection on JSTOR
Colonialism in the Caribbean: The Case of Haiti (An ArcGIS Story Map Series Originated by Dr. Maurice Wade and Developed in Collaboration with Trinity Library Staff and Undergraduate Researchers)
Trinity College’s Center for Caribbean Studies Presented “A State Visit to Hartford by Marcus and Amy Garvey” on December 2, 2017, at the college’s 10 Constitution Plaza location in downtown Hartford. Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney and local City and State officials were on hand to greet the Garveys (portrayed by actors Michael Cherrie and Penelope Spencer), along with more than 100 members of the Greater Hartford community. The Marcus Garvey Popular Theatre Project received a warm welcome to Hartford—a city where the percentage of residents of West Indian and Caribbean heritage is among the highest in the United States. The theatrical and educational project is designed to help people explore and reflect on the history and legacy of Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), who initiated a movement dedicated to black racial pride and economic self-sufficiency known as Pan Africanism and was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
Beyond Traditional: Contemporary Understandings of Puerto Rico
(Course lecture series organized by Professor Amanda Guzmán)
The course, Beyond Traditional: Contemporary Understandings of Puerto Rico, interrogates Puerto Rican culture on its own terms – shifting from traditional definitions of the island’s identity formation from multiple cultural influences to contemporary critiques centering historically marginalized communities amidst ongoing climate and economic precarity. For an island defined by a liminality of political status and a historically contingent stateside diaspora, how do we re-conceptualize the traditional as well as embrace the contemporary? This speaker series explores and archives a selection of thought around and analysis of material and immaterial cultural productions originating from island and stateside diaspora communities. Speakers represent a range of diverse positionalities from archaeologists and art historians to museum curators and educators. These talks which originated in a remote Trinity classroom in Spring 2021 invite the future viewers of this channel – Hartford community members and beyond – to join a conversation as we consider new, critical understandings of the island’s cultural legacy and more importantly – its future.
Trinity Students Experience Central American Culture in Hartford | Trinity College
Trinity students recently stepped outside of their classroom to experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of Central American culture in downtown Hartford.
The Case of The Island of Barbados
Assistant Paintings Conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, Kendall Francis introduced the stages of conservation, which combines art history research, artistic skill, and scientific analysis. She outlined her process through the case of The Island of Barbados, a painting attributed to Isaac Sailmaker and dated around 1694 which is believed to be the earliest known painted representation of Barbados.
Her work on this painting is part of an international collaboration between the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, the National Trust (UK), and Yale University. This collaborative project focuses on the research, conservation, and analysis of three of the earliest surviving panoramic paintings of Barbados located in each institution.
Francis concluded by describing a long-term personal project aimed at tracing the legacies of colonialism, and slavery, and exploitation through the study of artist materials found in European paintings.
This virtual presentation was hosted as part of the fall 2025 course, Decentering and Re-centering History: Anthropology of Museums, taught by Professor Amanda Guzmán.
Trinity College Caribbean Film Collection
Acquired at the request of the Center for Caribbean Studies, Trinity College is pleased to share with the Trinity community a collection of independent films created by Caribbean filmmakers. To view the collection, Click here.
Other Digital Resources
Curricular Tools:
Connecticut Museum – Caribbean Educator Resources
LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections
Research Databases:
Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Digital Resources
Data Hub | CentroPR (cuny.edu)
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Early Caribbean Digital Archive
Digital Project Case Studies:
