Hilda Lloréns

Hilda Lloréns is a cultural anthropologist and a decolonial scholar, whose most recent book is Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice which weaves together autobiography, ethnography, interviews, memories, and fieldwork to recast narratives that continuously erase Black Puerto Rican women as agents of social change, bringing to life the powerful histories and testimonies of a marginalized, disavowed community that has been treated as disposable. The thread that binds Dr. Lloréns’ scholarship is understanding how racial and gender inequality manifest itself in cultural production, nation building, access to environmental resources, and exposure to environmental degradation. Dr. Lloréns’ research has been centrally concerned with critiquing structural inequalities and dismantling taken for granted notions of power. At URI, she teaches core courses in anthropology, such as Anthropological Theory, Language & Culture, Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs, and Gender & Culture, among others. Click here to read more about her research and publications.