Education

• Binghamton University, Ph.D. Sociology, 2003.
• Binghamton University, M.A. Sociology, 1997.
• Columbia University, Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York 1994-1995.
• The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Research Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, CAMEO (Community, Autobiography, Ethnography, Organizing) Project on NY Latino communities 1991-1993.
• New School For Social Research, Graduate Courses in Political Economy, 1979-1981.
• Catholic University of Puerto Rico, B.A. Philosophy and Psychology, 1976.

Teaching Experience

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, 1999 to now
• Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, Full-time Instructor and Researcher, Center for Ethnic Studies, Academic Year, 1998-1999
• John Jay School of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, Adjunct Lecturer, Puerto Rican Studies, Race and Ethnicity in America, Caribbean History, Urban Sociology of U.S. Latinos, 1997-1998.
• Binghamton University, Adjunct Lecturer Sociology, Race and Culture in the World-System, 1996-1997.
• Baruch College, CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer, Black and Hispanic Studies, Latin American History and Culture, U.S. Latino/a Politics, 1994-1995.
• City College, CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer, Latin American Studies, Puerto Rican History, U.S. Latino/a History, 1982-1984.
• Queens College, CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer, Puerto Rican Studies, Caribbean Political Economy, Contemporary Caribbean, 1981-1982.
• New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty, Teaching Assistant, Political Economy, Socio-Economic Historical Formations, 1980-1981.
• Barnard College, Columbia University, Teaching Assistant, Sociology, Race, Class, and Gender, Spring 1994.
• Ponce High School, Coordinator and Teacher, Puerto Rican History and Culture, Special Program for Return Migrants, 1976-1978.

Publications and Research

• Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City (edited volume,co-editor with Arlene Davila) Columbia University Press, 2001.
• “Building Bridges: New Visions for Historic Cities” Planners Network, September, 2002.
• “New York el les avatars de l’identite latino” Homes et Migrations, May, 2002, Paris.
• “Latin American Area Studies and Latino Ethnic Studies: From the Civilizing Mission to the Barbarian’s Revenge,” Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy.American Philosophical Association, 2001.
• “Latino-Americanismo: Atravessando Genealogias e Cruzando Fronteiras.” Caderno CHR, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil, June 2000.
• “Unfinished Migrations: Commentary and Response.”
  African Studies Review 43, no. 1, April 2000.
• "Islands at the Crossroads: Puerto Rican-ess traveling between the translocal nation and the global city" in Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Nationalism and Colonialism. Frances Negron and Ramon Grosfoguel, ed., University of Minnesota, 1997.
• "Resources of Hope: Imagining the Young Lords and the Politics of Memory." CENTRO, Winter 1995.
• "The 1898 Spanish-Cuban-American-Filipino War: Clashing Hegemonies and Contending Occidentalisms" forthcoming in Nepantla.
• "Latin American Area Studies and Latino Ethnic Studies: Epistemological and Political Challenges," forthcoming in Immanuel Wallerstein, ed. The Two Cultures in Question.
• “Transatlantic Crossroads/Entangled Diasporas: Mapping the ambiguous intersections of the Black Atlantic and the Green Atlantic,” forthcoming in Livio Sansone, ed. Transatlantic Constructions of “Race”, Racism, and Anti-Racist movements.
• “Late Colonial Politics: Anticolonial Nationalisms and Countercolonial Movements in Northern Ireland and Puerto Rico,” forthcoming in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
• "Disputed Memories/Contested Spaces: Northern Irish Sectarian Marches as Theaters of Power," forthcoming in Clare Carroll, Ed. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory.
• “Diasporic Counterpoints: Nation-hood(s) and Trans-location in Irish Studies and Puerto Rican Studies,” forthcoming in Ali Mirsepassi, ed. Alternative Modernities: Diasporas and Translocal Knowledges.
• Globalizing Youth Empowerment in the next millennium: An Evaluative Report of Global Action Project-Northern Ireland, United States Institute for Peace, 1997.
• "Testimonio: Memory, Imagery and the production of Latinidad" , Co-Curator of traveling exhibit at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and later at Musica Against Drugs, 1993-1994.

Work in Progress

• Postnationalist Decolonizations? Ireland, Puerto Rico, and the Coloniality of Power, (book manuscript in-progress).
• Technofuturos: Process, Power, and Desire. (volume co-edited with Nancy Mirabal).
  World-Cities and World-Regions: New Constellations of Political, Economic, and Cultural Power. (volume co-edited with Ramon Grosfoguel)
• “Puerto Ricans in Western Massachusetts: social Class, ethnoracial/ethnonational identifications,social movements and political organization” (to be published by Gaston Institute for Latino Research and Social Policy).

Selected Presentations

• “Rethinking the Nation or Thinking Beyond the Nation in the U.S.-Puerto Rico Contact Zone” Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, January 23, 2003.
• “Transatlantic Crossroads/Entangled Diasporas: Mapping the ambiguous intersections of the Black Atlantic and the Green Atlantic,” presented at “South/South Dialogue on Trans-Atlantic constructions of “race”,racism,and anti-racist movements” Dakhar/Goree, Senegal, November 11-15, 2002.
• “Diasporic Counterpoints: Nation-hood(s) and Trans-location in Irish Studies and Puerto Rican Studies” presented at conference “Crossing Borders: Rethinking Area Studies,” Yale University, November 6, 2002.
• “Globalization from Below” Irish Seminar, Keough Institute,University of Notre Dame and University College, Dublin, Ireland, July 2002.
• “Trans-Caribbean Circuits and New York’s Urban Regimes: Dominicans and Puerto Rican in the Border Zone” Conference on Caribbean Colonial Migrations to U.S. and European Metropolitan Cities", Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, June 2002
• “Sociology as Critique of Power: Bourdieu for a New Internationalism and against Neoliberal Dystopias” Five College Annual Sociology Colloquium “Bourdieu: Intellectual and Political Legacies”, May 2002, Amherst College
• “Late Colonial Politics: Anticolonial Nationalisms and Countercolonial Movements in Northern Ireland and Puerto Rico” Conference “Modernity from Below” Scripps College, April 2002.
• “Diaspora Notes: Globalization, Citizenship, and Vieques” Conference “Puerto Ricans: Second Class Citizens in ‘Our’ Democracy?” Princeton University, November, 2001
• "Miracles or Mirages? Unarmed Bootstraps and Paper Tigers: Coloniality and Diaspora in Ireland and Puerto Rico" March 2001, Boston College.
• "Rethinking Latino Studies through the African Diaspora" Conference on the African Diaspora, Schomburg Center, October 2000.
• "Pan-Caribbean Circuits: Mambo and the Erotics of Translocality," July 2000, ABRALIC Congress, Bahia, Brazil.
• "Latin American/Latino Studies: Intellectual, Pedagogical, and Political Challenges," Nov. 4, 1999, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• "Caribbeanscapes: Gender in the Tridimensional border between New York, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic", American Ethnological Society, Puerto Rico, April 1996.
• "Vernacular Sites, Speech Modes, and Variable Scenarios for Puerto Rican Cultural Politics of Language", Conference on Puerto Ricans Politics Here and There, Yale University, October 1995.
• "Trans-national formations and movements: First Meeting the International Network of Cultural Studies" Invited Participant, Rockefeller Villa, Bellagio, Italy, May 1994.
• "Post-Colonial Readings of Colonial Polls", Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1994.
• "Mambo Meditations: genealogical notes on the trope of mambo", National Conference on Latino Media Studies, Whitney Museum, November 1994.
• "The Politics of Ethnography and the dilemmas of being an insider/outsider", CUNY-University of Puerto Rico Seminar in Cultural Studies, Puerto Rico, January 1993.
• "First Inter-American Meeting on Cultural Studies", Invited Participant and Discussant on Cultural Industries, Mexico City, May 1993.
• "The Consumption of Freirean Pedagogy in the United States", International Conference on Freirean Pedagogy, New School for Social Research, New York, October 1992.
• "Discourses of Mestizaje and the Mirages of Racial Democracy in Latin America", Roundtable organized by Latino National Film Festival on "Cinema of Mestizaje", Anthology Film Archives, New York, May, 1991.
• "Fronteras Movedizas: For the Air Bus and Against the Tortilla Curtain", Conference on "Mexico Here and There", Columbia University, October 1990.
• "Puerto Ricans and the History of Immigration Policy", Community Service Society, New York, September 1988.
• "The New Immigration Law and the Dominican Community", Congressional Hearings on the Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 Employers Sanctions, Washington, D.C., 1988.