Jorell Meléndez-Badillo is a historian whose academic work uses a hemispheric and diasporic lens to explore the global circulation of radical ideas from the standpoint of working-class intellectual communities in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America. 

​He is Mellon Faculty Fellow (2018-2020), a Founding Faculty Fellow of Dartmouth's Consortium of Studies in Race,
Migration, and Sexualities (2019- ), and Assistant Professor of History (2020- ) at Dartmouth College.