Books
Puerto Rico: A National History (Princeton University Press, April 2, 2024).
In Spanish: Puerto Rico: Historia de una nación. Traducción de Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte (Grupo Planeta, 2 de abril de 2024).
In Spanish: Puerto Rico: Historia de una nación. Traducción de Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte (Grupo Planeta, 2 de abril de 2024).
The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2021).
- Recipient of Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award.
- Honorable Mention, 2022 Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association.
Voces libertarias: Orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico. Ediciones CCC: Santurce, 2013; 2nd ed., Madrid: Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 2014; 3rd ed., Lajas, P. R.: Editorial Akelarre, 2015.
Current Research Projects:
Current Research Projects:
Edited Volumes
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies. Co-edited with Aurora Santiago Ortiz.
Páginas libres: Breve antología del pensamiento anarquista en Puerto Rico, 1900-1919. Mayagüez: Editora Educación Emergence, 2021.
Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies. Co-edited with Nathan J. Jun. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Peer Reviewed Articles
"Luisa Capetillo and the Caribbean's Counter Republic of Letters," Small Axe Journal vol. 23, no. 3 (69) (November 2022):112-120.
“A Party of Ex-convicts: Bolívar Ochart, Incarceration, and the Socialist Party in Puerto Rico, 1917-1928,” Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 101, no. 1 (February 2021): 73-99.
“Mateo and Juana: Racial Silencing, Epistemic Violence, and Counterarchives in Puerto Rican Labor History,” International Labor and Working-Class History Journal vol. 96 (Fall 2019): 103-121.
“Imagining Resistance: Organizing the Puerto Rican Southern Agricultural Strike of 1905.” Caribbean Studies Journal vol. 43, no. 2 (July-December 2015): 33-82.
“Labor History’s Transnational Turn: Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers.” Review Essay. Latin American Perspectives vol. 42, no. 4 (July 2015): 117-122.
“A Party of Ex-convicts: Bolívar Ochart, Incarceration, and the Socialist Party in Puerto Rico, 1917-1928,” Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 101, no. 1 (February 2021): 73-99.
“Mateo and Juana: Racial Silencing, Epistemic Violence, and Counterarchives in Puerto Rican Labor History,” International Labor and Working-Class History Journal vol. 96 (Fall 2019): 103-121.
“Imagining Resistance: Organizing the Puerto Rican Southern Agricultural Strike of 1905.” Caribbean Studies Journal vol. 43, no. 2 (July-December 2015): 33-82.
“Labor History’s Transnational Turn: Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers.” Review Essay. Latin American Perspectives vol. 42, no. 4 (July 2015): 117-122.
Book Chapters
“Luisa Capetillo en La Habana: Sus escritos en la prensa anarquista cubana, 1910-1914.” In Amor y anarquía: Los escritos de Luisa Capetillo, edited by Julio Ramos. Mayagüez: Ediciones Educación Emergente, 2021.
“The Anarchist Imaginary: Max Nettlau and Latin America, 1890-1934.” In Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchist Print Culture and the United States, edited by Montse Feu-López and Chris J Castañeda. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
“The Puerto Rican Experiment: Crisis, Colonialism, and Popular Response.” In The End of the World as We Know It? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity, edited by Deric Shannon. Oakland, CA: AK Press.
“Interpreting, Deconstructing, and Deciphering Ideograms of Rebellion: An Approach to the History of Reading in Puerto Rico’s Anarchist Groups at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” In Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies, edited by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell and Nathan Jun, 57-75. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
“The Anarchist Imaginary: Max Nettlau and Latin America, 1890-1934.” In Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchist Print Culture and the United States, edited by Montse Feu-López and Chris J Castañeda. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
“The Puerto Rican Experiment: Crisis, Colonialism, and Popular Response.” In The End of the World as We Know It? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity, edited by Deric Shannon. Oakland, CA: AK Press.
“Interpreting, Deconstructing, and Deciphering Ideograms of Rebellion: An Approach to the History of Reading in Puerto Rico’s Anarchist Groups at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” In Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies, edited by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell and Nathan Jun, 57-75. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Other Academic Publications
“La Calle Fortaleza in Puerto Rico’s Primavera de Verano,” co-authored with Aurora Santiago Ortiz, in Decolonial Geographies of Puerto Rico’s 2019 Summer Protests, online forum edited by Marisol LeBrón and Joaquín Villanueva, Society and Space Journal (February 25, 2020)
“Commemorating May Day in Puerto Rico,” NACLA Report on the Americas vol. 51, no. 3 (September 2019): 301-305.
“Puerto Rico’s Multiple Solidarities: Emergent Landscapes and the Geographies of Protest,” co-authored with Aurora Santiago-Ortiz, The Abusable Past by Radical History Review (July 22, 2019)
“Los ecos del silencio: Dimensiones locales y aspiraciones globales del periódico Voz humana.” Revista La Brecha vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 23-27.
“Voces libertarias: The Economic, Political, and Social Discourse of Puerto Rican Anarchism, 1900-1917.” Theory in Action: The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute vol. 5, no. 4 (2012): 6-12.
"Expresiones anarquistas dentro de la prensa y la cultura proletaria puertorriqueña de principios del siglo XX.” Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter vol. 6, no. 1, (2012)
“El cabildo secular en Puerto Rico: Siglos XVI-XVIII.”Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter vol. 5 , no. 1 (2011)
“Commemorating May Day in Puerto Rico,” NACLA Report on the Americas vol. 51, no. 3 (September 2019): 301-305.
“Puerto Rico’s Multiple Solidarities: Emergent Landscapes and the Geographies of Protest,” co-authored with Aurora Santiago-Ortiz, The Abusable Past by Radical History Review (July 22, 2019)
“Los ecos del silencio: Dimensiones locales y aspiraciones globales del periódico Voz humana.” Revista La Brecha vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 23-27.
“Voces libertarias: The Economic, Political, and Social Discourse of Puerto Rican Anarchism, 1900-1917.” Theory in Action: The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute vol. 5, no. 4 (2012): 6-12.
"Expresiones anarquistas dentro de la prensa y la cultura proletaria puertorriqueña de principios del siglo XX.” Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter vol. 6, no. 1, (2012)
“El cabildo secular en Puerto Rico: Siglos XVI-XVIII.”Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter vol. 5 , no. 1 (2011)
Book Reviews
“The Edge of Citizenship.” Review of Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration by Robert McGreevey, Diplomatic History vol. 43, no. 5 (November 2019): 951-953.
Review of The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna, Times Higher Education, August 22, 2019.
Review of Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions by Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, Anarchist Studies Journal 27, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 105-106.
Review of Puerto Rican Labor History, 1898-1934: Revolutionary Ideals and Reformist Politics by Carlos Sanabria, Caribbean Studies Journal 46, no. 2 (December 2018): 220-222.
Review of Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 by Kirwin R. Shaffer, Caribbean Studies Journal 41, no. 2 (July-December 2013): 259-262.
Review of Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy, edited by Amster Randall, et. al, Revista de la Asociación de Estudiantes Graduados en Historia UIPR 1, no. 1 (2013).
Review of The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna, Times Higher Education, August 22, 2019.
Review of Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions by Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, Anarchist Studies Journal 27, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 105-106.
Review of Puerto Rican Labor History, 1898-1934: Revolutionary Ideals and Reformist Politics by Carlos Sanabria, Caribbean Studies Journal 46, no. 2 (December 2018): 220-222.
Review of Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 by Kirwin R. Shaffer, Caribbean Studies Journal 41, no. 2 (July-December 2013): 259-262.
Review of Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy, edited by Amster Randall, et. al, Revista de la Asociación de Estudiantes Graduados en Historia UIPR 1, no. 1 (2013).
Media Coverage and Appearances
- Araceli Cruz, “Puerto Rican Feminist Luisa Capetillo Fought to Redefine Labor, Gender Equality,” Teen Vogue, May 8, 2020. www.teenvogue.com
- Nicole Chavez, “Puerto Rico’s potential next governor doesn’t want the job but she says it’s her duty,” CNN, August 2, 2019. www.cnn.com
- Marisa Gerber and Milton Carrero Galazara, “Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello announces resignation amid mounting protests,” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2019. www.latimes.com
- Shauna Hussain and Marisa Gerber, “The massive push for Puerto Rico Gov. Rossello to resign grew from several key factors,” Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2019. www.latimes.com
- Marisa Gerber, “Puerto Ricans press for Gov. Rossello’s resignation ahead of major protest Monday,” Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2019. www.latimes.com
- Radio Interview, “All News,” KCBS Radio, San Francisco, California, July 20, 2019.
- Justin Agrelo, “Explosive photos capture Puerto Ricans taking to the streets to demand the Governor’s resignation,” Mother Jones, July 17, 2019. www.motherjones.com
- Dario Mizrahi, “Qué hay detrás de los mensajes de Telegram que forzaron la renuncia del gobernador de Puerto Rico,” InfoBae (Buenos Aires, Argentina). July 17, 2019.
- Justin Agrelo, “How a change of color for the Puerto Rican flag became a symbol of resistance,” Mother Jones, July 4, 2019. www.motherjones.com
- “Anarchism and Socialism in Puerto Rico,” From Below Podcast, April 11, 2019. www.frombelowpodcast.com
- “El Conversatorio,” Radio Interview, WIPR 940 AM, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 3, 2018.
- Javier Rivera Oquendo, “Prensa obrera en el Viejo San Juan: Un legado de emancipación y progreso,” El Adoquin Times, Year 1, No. 12 (November 12, 2016): 7.
- Frances Solá, “Jorell Meléndez: Maestro de profesión, anarquista por convicción,” Diálogo Digital: Universidad de Puerto Rico. November 19, 2013. www.dialogodigital.com.
- Joel Cintrón Arbasetti, “Voces libertarias: La historia relegada del anarquismo en Puerto Rico,” Diálogo Digital: Universidad de Puerto Rico. March 12, 2013. www.dialogodigital.com.
- Gustavo Díaz, “Jorell Meléndez: The Promise of Freedom and Keeping its Word,” Pan-American Affairs: A Foreign Policy Digest. February 4, 2013. www.panamericanaffairs.com.
- Nicole Chavez, “Puerto Rico’s potential next governor doesn’t want the job but she says it’s her duty,” CNN, August 2, 2019. www.cnn.com
- Marisa Gerber and Milton Carrero Galazara, “Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello announces resignation amid mounting protests,” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2019. www.latimes.com
- Shauna Hussain and Marisa Gerber, “The massive push for Puerto Rico Gov. Rossello to resign grew from several key factors,” Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2019. www.latimes.com
- Marisa Gerber, “Puerto Ricans press for Gov. Rossello’s resignation ahead of major protest Monday,” Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2019. www.latimes.com
- Radio Interview, “All News,” KCBS Radio, San Francisco, California, July 20, 2019.
- Justin Agrelo, “Explosive photos capture Puerto Ricans taking to the streets to demand the Governor’s resignation,” Mother Jones, July 17, 2019. www.motherjones.com
- Dario Mizrahi, “Qué hay detrás de los mensajes de Telegram que forzaron la renuncia del gobernador de Puerto Rico,” InfoBae (Buenos Aires, Argentina). July 17, 2019.
- Justin Agrelo, “How a change of color for the Puerto Rican flag became a symbol of resistance,” Mother Jones, July 4, 2019. www.motherjones.com
- “Anarchism and Socialism in Puerto Rico,” From Below Podcast, April 11, 2019. www.frombelowpodcast.com
- “El Conversatorio,” Radio Interview, WIPR 940 AM, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 3, 2018.
- Javier Rivera Oquendo, “Prensa obrera en el Viejo San Juan: Un legado de emancipación y progreso,” El Adoquin Times, Year 1, No. 12 (November 12, 2016): 7.
- Frances Solá, “Jorell Meléndez: Maestro de profesión, anarquista por convicción,” Diálogo Digital: Universidad de Puerto Rico. November 19, 2013. www.dialogodigital.com.
- Joel Cintrón Arbasetti, “Voces libertarias: La historia relegada del anarquismo en Puerto Rico,” Diálogo Digital: Universidad de Puerto Rico. March 12, 2013. www.dialogodigital.com.
- Gustavo Díaz, “Jorell Meléndez: The Promise of Freedom and Keeping its Word,” Pan-American Affairs: A Foreign Policy Digest. February 4, 2013. www.panamericanaffairs.com.