Massiel Torres Ulloa is a scholar-educator, translator, writer, and visual artist from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 

Her work examines the genealogies of dissent, rebellion, and evasion practiced by Black and Afro-descendent people in the Caribbean during and after the colonial period. She pays special attention to Afro-diasporic spiritualities, gender-creative practices, and communal memory stewardship. Massiel is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Effron Center for the Study of America, where she works on her monograph manuscript tentatively titled “Ordinary Freedoms: The Every Day of Black Rebellion in Hispaniola,” which centers the transnational history of the Maroon community of Los Mina in East Santo Domingo since its founding at the end of the seventeenth century. 

Massiel holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, and a BA from Emerson College.