Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's current work explores the global circulation of radical ideas from the standpoint of working-class intellectual communities in Puerto Rico. His teaching specializations include Latin America and the Caribbean, with additional expertise in the region's human rights, working classes, and radical movements. 

​He is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Dartmouth College's Department of History,
where he will transition to the position of Assistant Professor of History on July 1st, 2020.