Courses & Scholarly Interest

Courses Taught (Since 2003):

  • The New Class of Racisms
  • Ethnic Studies: History, Politics, and Social Movements
  • Empires and Citizenship: Postcoloniality and Puerto Rican Communities
  • Striking Back Against Empire: Puerto Ricans, Colonialism, Rebellion, and Diaspora Communities
  • Remapping Las Américas: Introductory Perspectives in U.S. Latin@ Studies
  • Pa’lante: Raising Voices/Fostering Change: Latin@ and Latin American Social Movements
  • Latin@ History(ies)
  • Trans-Latin@ Histories
  • Latin@ Popular Culture(s) in the Age of Globalization
  • Artivism
  • Art and Activism
  • Artivism and the Social Imagination
  • Artivism, Performance Praxis and the Sub-Altern Avant-Garde
  • Sociology of Culture
  • Deconstructing the Popular: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Identity, and Culture
  • Music of the Trans-Latin@ Atlantic/Afro-Latin@ Musical Cultures
  • Latin@ Cultural Studies
  • Trans-Latin@ Cultural Studies
  • Oral History Theory and Method: Power, Agency, and History “from Below”

Scholarly Interests

American Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies:
Critical Ethnic Studies; Latin@ Studies, Puerto Rican Studies; Latin@ Cultural Studies; Latino History(ies); Comparative Racial Formations; Modernity and Empire; Race, Theory and Critical Cultural Studies

Art & Cultural Studies:
Art and Activism; Art and Social Movements; Avant-Garde Communities; Performance Studies; Popular Culture and the Expressive Arts; Cultural Arts Movements; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Music; Transnational Latin@ Musical Formations; Latin@ Cultural Studies

Sociology & History:
Oral History Theory and Methodology; Qualitative Methodologies; Interdisciplinary Research Methods; Social Movements; Race, Ethnicity, Gender & Power; Social & Cultural Theory; Transnationalism and Globalization