Position/Role
Associate Professor
Department
Building
New Academic Building
Room
3059
Phone
E-mail
Courses Taught
- Politics of Latin America & the Caribbean (PE 4690)
- Introduction to U.S. Politics (PE 2650)
- Political & Social Thought (PE 4620)
- Introduction to U.S. Politics (PE 2650)
- Political Power & Social Class (PE 4610)
- Topics in U.S. Politics (PE 4650)
- Comparative Political Systems (PE 4680)
- Comparative Labor Relations (IR 3260)
- Inter-American Relations & Immigration (PE 3240)
Degrees
- Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- M.A., New York University Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- B.A., SUNY College at Old Westbury
Research Interests
- Neoliberalism, Identity Politics, and Democratic Institutions
- Movements for economic, political, and social justice in the U.S. and Latin America, including Puerto Rico
Publications
- Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rico Political Activism (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017
- “Music as Political Actor in Latin America,” Review Essay (peer-reviewed), Latin American Perspectives, Fall 2017.
- “A History of Puerto Rican/Black Coalitions in New York,” Book Review of Frederick Douglass Opie, Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City, From Protest to Public Office (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), Centro Voices, February 2016.
- The Struggle against ‘Urban Renewal’ in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and the Emergence of El Comité,” Centro, Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, vol. 22, no. 2 (Fall 2009), 109-140.