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Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is a Puerto Rican academic and author. She is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the author of several books, including Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction (2005), Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo (2003), and Inventing Mestizaje: Race, Culture, and Identity in Latin America (2008). Paravisini-Gebert was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and grew up in the city of Mayagüez. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Puerto Rico in 1975, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 and 1983, respectively. Paravisini-Gebert has been a professor at Vassar College since 1988. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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In addition to her works on women's literature, Paravisini-Gebert has studied art and religious practices, including Creole religions in the Caribbean. Such works as Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean and Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora using a multi-disciplinary approach to evaluate cultural and linguistic patterns that connect art and religious practices in the region. From 2009 to 2012, she was the director of Environmental Studies at Vassar and her works expanded perceptions of the field through interdisciplinary research, which confirmed that rather than simply a hard scientific field, environmental studies had broader applicability. For example, in works such as Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Literature and Culture and Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures she evaluated how the plantation culture and modern development have reshaped the Caribbean environment.

In 1981, Paravisini-Gebert began her career teaching as an associate professor in the interdisciplinary Puerto Rican studies program at City University of New York in Brooklyn. Ten years later, she moved to Vassar College, teaching Caribbean culture and literature. Caribbean studies first began to emerge in the middle of the 1980s, and Paravisini-Gebert's career has sought to provide study and future scholarship regarding the cultural and environmental history of the region. She has argued that studies of the region must encompass a broad understanding of both the shared and separate histories of the islands in the region, as those focusing too narrowly on commonalities or post-colonial theory miss the complexities of the cultures. Works, such as Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Decolonizing Feminism: The Home-Grown Roots of Caribbean Women's Movements explored these complexities and how race relations and the drive for self-determination shaped women's lives.

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (born 1953) is a Puerto Rican academic who specializes in research of the Caribbean. She holds the Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair at Vassar College.

Lizabeth Paravisini was born in 1953 in Puerto Rico to Virgenmina (née Rivera) and Domingo Paravisini. She grew up in Puerto Rico and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras in 1973 in comparative literature. Continuing her education, she moved to New York City and completed a Master of Arts degree in 1976 at New York University. Paravisini furthered her post-graduate educationat New York University, earning a Master of Philosophy in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982. She married Gordon Gebert in 1988, a former child actor, who is a professor of architecture at City College of New York.