Jorell Meléndez Badillo is the author of Voces libertarias: Los orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico (Secret Sailor Books, 2013; Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo-CNT, 2014; Editorial Akelarre/CEISO, 2015) and co-editor of Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). He has published book chapters, as well as journal and newspaper articles on the histories of anarchism, labor, and radical politics in Puerto Rico and Latin America. His work has appeared in Hispanic American Historical Review, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Perspectives, NACLA, International Labor and Working Class History, Society and Space, and The Abusable Past, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Connecticut.
His forthcoming book, The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Durham: Duke University Press, Nov. 2021), tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workingmen were able to go from producing knowledge within their workshops and labor unions in the margins of Puerto Rico’s cultural and intellectual elite, to becoming highly respected politicians and statesmen. It is a story of how this group of workers produced, negotiated, and archived powerful discourses that ended up shaping Puerto Rico’s national mythology. However, by following a group of ragtag intellectuals, the book demonstrates how techniques of racial and gender silencing, ghosting, and erasure also took place in the margins. Ultimately, it is a book about the intersections of politics, knowledge, and power-relations in Puerto Rican working-class intellectual production at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. Meléndez-Badillo is currently writing a trade book titled Puerto Rico: A National History (under contract with Princeton University Press). This book offers an accessible introduction to Puerto Rico, its history, and the contemporary political moment. It is a national history of a country without a nation state. It tells the story of how Puerto Rico has been colonized for more than five centuries. However, it also documents how the people have resisted colonial domination. Ultimately, the book will provide unfamiliar readers with an informed argument of how and why Puerto Rico arrived at its current juncture, as well as how Puerto Ricans are imagining possible futures in the face of austerity, failing infrastructures, and the rubble left behind by colonial neglect
He is also working on another monograph-length research project, tentatively titled Following the Revolution: Juan Francisco and Blanca Moncaleano's Transnational Militancy, 1910-1916. It explores the materiality of working-class intellectual communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. borderlands by rethinking the role of anarchist newspaper production. Beyond their propagandistic ethos, newspapers served as nodes that facilitated the creation of transregional anarchist cartographies.
He is currently a 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.
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Jorell Meléndez Badillo es autor de Voces libertarias: Los orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico (Secret Sailor Books, 2013; Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo-CNT, 2014; Editorial Akelarre/CEISO, 2015) y co-editor de Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). Ha publicado capítulos en libros como también artículos en periódicos y revistas académicas sobre las historias del anarquismo, el obrerismo y las políticas radicales en Puerto Rico y América Latina. Sus trabajos han aparecido en Hispanic American Historical Review, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Perspectives, NACLA, International Labor and Working-Class History, Society and Space, The Abusable Past, entre otros.
Su próximo libro, The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (La barriada letrada: Trabajadores, poder de archivo y las políticas del saber en Puerto Rico (Durham: Duke University Press, Nov. 2021) narra la historia de cómo un puñado de trabajadores autodidactas fueron capaces de producir saberes dentro de sus talleres y uniones en los márgenes de la elite cultural e intelectual puertorriqueña, para luego convertirse en políticos y hombres de estados muy respetados. Aun así, al seguir este grupo de intelectuales en harapos, el libro también demuestra cómo operaban las técnicas de silenciamiento y exclusión racial y de género. En fin, es un libro sobre las intersecciones entre la política, los saberes y las relaciones de poder en la producción intelectual obrera a principios del siglo XX.
Se encuentra trabajando en otro trabajo monográfico tentativamente titulado Following the Revolution: Juan Francisco and Blanca Moncaleano's Transnational Militancy, 1910-1916. En el mismo explora la materialidad de las comunidad intelectuales obreras en América Latina, el Caribe y la frontera estadounidense mientras repiensa el rol de la producción de periódicos anarquistas. Más allá de su carácter propagandístico, los locales donde se producía la prensa ácrata sirvieron como nodos para facilitar la creación de cartografías anarquistas transregionales.
Actualmente es Profesor Becado Mellon (2018-2020), Profesor Becado Fundador del Consorcio en Estudios de Raza, Migración y Sexualidades en Dartmouth (2019- ), Catedrático Auxiliar de Historia (2020- ) en Dartmouth College.
His forthcoming book, The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Durham: Duke University Press, Nov. 2021), tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workingmen were able to go from producing knowledge within their workshops and labor unions in the margins of Puerto Rico’s cultural and intellectual elite, to becoming highly respected politicians and statesmen. It is a story of how this group of workers produced, negotiated, and archived powerful discourses that ended up shaping Puerto Rico’s national mythology. However, by following a group of ragtag intellectuals, the book demonstrates how techniques of racial and gender silencing, ghosting, and erasure also took place in the margins. Ultimately, it is a book about the intersections of politics, knowledge, and power-relations in Puerto Rican working-class intellectual production at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. Meléndez-Badillo is currently writing a trade book titled Puerto Rico: A National History (under contract with Princeton University Press). This book offers an accessible introduction to Puerto Rico, its history, and the contemporary political moment. It is a national history of a country without a nation state. It tells the story of how Puerto Rico has been colonized for more than five centuries. However, it also documents how the people have resisted colonial domination. Ultimately, the book will provide unfamiliar readers with an informed argument of how and why Puerto Rico arrived at its current juncture, as well as how Puerto Ricans are imagining possible futures in the face of austerity, failing infrastructures, and the rubble left behind by colonial neglect
He is also working on another monograph-length research project, tentatively titled Following the Revolution: Juan Francisco and Blanca Moncaleano's Transnational Militancy, 1910-1916. It explores the materiality of working-class intellectual communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. borderlands by rethinking the role of anarchist newspaper production. Beyond their propagandistic ethos, newspapers served as nodes that facilitated the creation of transregional anarchist cartographies.
He is currently a 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.
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Jorell Meléndez Badillo es autor de Voces libertarias: Los orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico (Secret Sailor Books, 2013; Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo-CNT, 2014; Editorial Akelarre/CEISO, 2015) y co-editor de Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). Ha publicado capítulos en libros como también artículos en periódicos y revistas académicas sobre las historias del anarquismo, el obrerismo y las políticas radicales en Puerto Rico y América Latina. Sus trabajos han aparecido en Hispanic American Historical Review, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Perspectives, NACLA, International Labor and Working-Class History, Society and Space, The Abusable Past, entre otros.
Su próximo libro, The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (La barriada letrada: Trabajadores, poder de archivo y las políticas del saber en Puerto Rico (Durham: Duke University Press, Nov. 2021) narra la historia de cómo un puñado de trabajadores autodidactas fueron capaces de producir saberes dentro de sus talleres y uniones en los márgenes de la elite cultural e intelectual puertorriqueña, para luego convertirse en políticos y hombres de estados muy respetados. Aun así, al seguir este grupo de intelectuales en harapos, el libro también demuestra cómo operaban las técnicas de silenciamiento y exclusión racial y de género. En fin, es un libro sobre las intersecciones entre la política, los saberes y las relaciones de poder en la producción intelectual obrera a principios del siglo XX.
Se encuentra trabajando en otro trabajo monográfico tentativamente titulado Following the Revolution: Juan Francisco and Blanca Moncaleano's Transnational Militancy, 1910-1916. En el mismo explora la materialidad de las comunidad intelectuales obreras en América Latina, el Caribe y la frontera estadounidense mientras repiensa el rol de la producción de periódicos anarquistas. Más allá de su carácter propagandístico, los locales donde se producía la prensa ácrata sirvieron como nodos para facilitar la creación de cartografías anarquistas transregionales.
Actualmente es Profesor Becado Mellon (2018-2020), Profesor Becado Fundador del Consorcio en Estudios de Raza, Migración y Sexualidades en Dartmouth (2019- ), Catedrático Auxiliar de Historia (2020- ) en Dartmouth College.
