Yarimar Bonilla is Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015), co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm. In addition, Yarimar is a prominent public intellectual and a leading voice on Caribbean and Latin-X politics. She writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día titled “En Vaivén,” is a regular contributor to publications such as The Washington Post, The Nation, Jacobin, and The New Yorker, and a frequent guest on National Public Radio and news programs such as Democracy Now! In addition, Professor Bonilla has a strong interest in the role of digital technologies within social movements and academic practice. She has theorized hashtag usage within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and is a principal collaborator in the #PuertoRicoSyllabus project. Her current research—for which she was named a 2018-2020 Carnegie Fellow—examines the politics of recovery in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria and the forms of political and social trauma that the storm revealed. Follow her on Twitter @YarimarBonilla
Programming
Conversation
Wed, Sep 29, 2021,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Puerto Ricans at the Fault Lines: A Conversation with Yarimar Bonilla
Research Fellowship Job Opportunity
Call for Applications: Research Fellow for The Puerto Rico Syllabus
NYPL's Doc Chat Series
Thu, Feb 18, 2021,
03:30 PM –
04:00 PM
Teaching the #Syllabus with Yarimar Bonilla and Zakiya Collier: NYPL Doc Chat Episode 16
Opportunity
Fri, Nov 13, 2020 –
Sun, Dec 6, 2020,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Curricular Fellowship & Research Assistantship for the Puerto Rico Syllabus
Conversation
Fri, Oct 23, 2020,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Digital Puerto Rican Studies: Social Scholarship, Mapping, and Archives
Screening and Conversation
Thu, Jun 25, 2020,
07:00 PM –
09:00 PM
Sancocho LIVE: Essential Infrastructure
Event
Thu, Jun 11, 2020 –
Thu, Jun 25, 2020,
07:00 PM – 09:00 PM
07:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Sancocho LIVE: Catastrophe, Resistance, & Joy: A Virtual Stew of “Non-Essential” Thinkers and Makers / Un guiso virtual de pensadores y hacedores “no-esenciales”
Screening and Conversation
Thu, Jun 18, 2020,
07:00 PM –
09:00 PM