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 Workers, Radicals, and Intellectuals Across Las Américas: A Transnational History. It explores how radical intellectual communities in Havana, Buenos Aires, and New York developed in relation to one another at the turn of the twentieth century. To explore this phenomenon, the book focuses on a cluster of workers, radicals, and intellectuals affiliated to three of the hemisphere's most influential anarchist newspapers: La protesta, ¡Tierra!, and Cultura obrera. Ultimately, the book tells the story of how these three editorial projects weaved together radical intellectual communities across South America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe.
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.
Actualmente se encuentra trabajando en otro libro tentativamente titulado Workers, Radicals, and Intellectuals Across Las Américas: A Transnational History (Trabajadorxs, intelectuales y radicales a través de Las Américas: Una historia transnacional). El libro explora cómo a comienzos del siglo XX la producción de comunidades intelectuales radicales en La Habana, Buenos Aires y Nueva York se desarrollaron en relación la una con la otra. Para explorar este fenómeno, el libro se enfoca en un puñado de trabajadorxs, radicales e intelectuales afiliadxs a tres de los más importantes periódicos anarquistas: La protesta, ¡Tierra! y Cultura obrera. En fin, es libro que narra la historia de cómo estos tres proyectos editoriales colectivamente tejieron comunidades intelectuales en Sur América, el Caribe, Estados Unidos y Europa.
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 Workers, Radicals, and Intellectuals Across Las Américas: A Transnational History. It explores how radical intellectual communities in Havana, Buenos Aires, and New York developed in relation to one another at the turn of the twentieth century. To explore this phenomenon, the book focuses on a cluster of workers, radicals, and intellectuals affiliated to three of the hemisphere's most influential anarchist newspapers: La protesta, ¡Tierra!, and Cultura obrera. Ultimately, the book tells the story of how these three editorial projects weaved together radical intellectual communities across South America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe.
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.
Actualmente se encuentra trabajando en otro libro tentativamente titulado Workers, Radicals, and Intellectuals Across Las Américas: A Transnational History (Trabajadorxs, intelectuales y radicales a través de Las Américas: Una historia transnacional). El libro explora cómo a comienzos del siglo XX la producción de comunidades intelectuales radicales en La Habana, Buenos Aires y Nueva York se desarrollaron en relación la una con la otra. Para explorar este fenómeno, el libro se enfoca en un puñado de trabajadorxs, radicales e intelectuales afiliadxs a tres de los más importantes periódicos anarquistas: La protesta, ¡Tierra! y Cultura obrera. En fin, es libro que narra la historia de cómo estos tres proyectos editoriales colectivamente tejieron comunidades intelectuales en Sur América, el Caribe, Estados Unidos y Europa.
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.
