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About Me

I earned a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Indiana University, and currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Studies and Music at New College of Florida. Between 2008 and 2018, I taught at the Universidad Metropolitana and the University of Puerto Rico. In 2018 I was the researcher for the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico music special, Más de un siglo: 125 años de música en Puerto Rico.

My research and teaching focus on the intersection of race, gender, colonialism, and musical expressions in Puerto Rican and Caribbean societies. I have published my work in Latin American Music Review, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Musiké, Caribbean Studies, and Revista Cruce.

Selected Publications

• "Listening to Our New Possessions: Music and Imperial Writings on Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1898–1930" in Rivera Vega, Carmen Haydée & Duany, Jorge Two Wings of the Same Bird: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Puerto Rican and Cuban-American History, Literature, and Culture, The University of Florida Press, Forthcoming.

• "Representaciones sonoras: masculinidades y música popular en la colección de John Alden Mason, 1914- 1915". El Centro Journal, Volume XXXII • Number II • Summer 2020.

• “En defensa de la danza puertorriqueña: música e identidad en Puerto Rico en la tercera década del siglo XX”, Revista Cruce (UAGM), February 2020.

• “A son de clave: la dimensión afro-diaspórica de la puertorriqueñidad, 1929-1940” in Latin American Music Review Fall/Winter, 2017, 38:1

• “La colección John Alden Mason (1914-1915): Una documentación sonora para el estudio de la historia cultural y musical puertorriqueña” in Musiké, 2015.Vol. 4, núm. 1.

• “La colección John Alden Mason: una documentación sonora para la historia de Puerto Rico” in Caribbean Studies, Vol. 36, No.2., (2009) ,161-168.

• “Too Familiar to be Entirely Alien, Too Alien to be Entirely Familiar: The Political and Cultural Effects of Granting Puerto Ricans American Citizenship” in Diasporic Ruptures: Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity. Edited by Alireza Asgharzadeh,ed. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers, 2007.

Courses Fall 2020

• Cuba and Puerto Rico in the American Century