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EDUCATION
Aug 2015 Ph. D. in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation: “Welfare is Work: Social Welfare, Migration, and Women’s Activism in Puerto Rican Communities after 1917.”
Co-Chairs: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof and Richard Turits
Committee Members: Maria Cotera and Sueann Caulfield
Examination Fields: Latino/as in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, United States 20th C & Comparative Ethnic Studies
2006 M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Concentration: Latino/a Studies
Thesis: “From Formeria to Formey: Stitching Together a Concept of “Movement” Through Puerto Rican Women’s Labor History”
Adviser: Blanca Silvestrini
2004 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
Concentrations: Latino/a Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Spanish
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Fall 2017- present Assistant Professor, Department of History and Institute for Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
2016-2017 Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
2015- 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Goucher College
FIELDS OF STUDY
Latino/as in the United States
Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in the United States
Latin America and the Caribbean
Race and ethnicity
Women, gender, and sexuality
Comparative Ethnic Studies
United States Transnational History
United States in the World
Migration, immigration, and transnationalism
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Referred Journals
2016 “Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans:” Social Workers, the Social Security Act and Puerto Rican Communities, 1933-1943,” LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (12:3, December 2016): 105-129.
2015 “Organizing Puerto Rican Domestics: Resistance and Household Labor Reform in the Puerto Rican Diaspora after 1930,” ILWCH: International Labor and Working Class History (No. 8, Fall 2015): 67-86.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Contact me for information about my book manuscript or other articles and reviews in progress.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
External Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
2019- 2020 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Connecticut
2016-2018 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
2016 Best-Dissertation Award, Latino/a Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association, Honorable Mention
2015-2017 SITPA Scholar (Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement) at Duke University
2012- 2013 Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation and National Research Council of the National Academies
2012- 2013 Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Declined
2012 Center for Puerto Rican Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York
2012 Puerto Rican Studies Association, Graduate Student Award for Conference Participation and Travel
2008 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Honorable Mention
University of Michigan
2015 Rackham Finishing Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School
2013- 2014 Rackham Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School
2012- 2013 Boyd/Williams Fellowship on Women and Work, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
2012 Rackham Centennial Spring and Summer Fellowship Award, Rackham Graduate School
2011- 2012 Alfredo Gutiérrez Dissertation Award, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2011 John H. D’Arms Graduate Student Awards for Summer Research Travel in the Humanities
2011 Community of Scholars Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Rackham Graduate School
2010 Rackham Research Award for Candidates, Rackham Graduate School
2010 Orla B. Taylor Award, History Department
2010 Rackham Humanities Candidacy Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School
2010 Center for the Education of Women Research Grant, Center for the Education of Women
2009 History Department Spring Research Fellowship, History Department
2009 Rackham Pre-Candidacy Research Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School
2009 Spring/Summer Rackham Research Grant
2007- 2012 Rackham Merit Fellowship, five years of funding
University of Connecticut:
2006 Robert Mead Award in Latin American Studies
2006 Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Travel Grant
2005 Multicultural/Outstanding Student Summer Fellowship
2004-2006 Latin American Studies Fellowship
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & TALKS
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Studies Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Latin American Studies Association
Puerto Rican Studies Association
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Presentation at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, 2013, Photo credit: Dr. Arlene Torres