On behalf of the search committee for the Director of The Centro de Estudios
Puertorriqueños/Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro), I am delighted to
announce the four finalists for the position of Centro Director.  The
finalists emerged from a national search that yielded a diverse and
distinguished pool of applicants.  The search committee is deeply gratified
to present these candidates to the community.  
 
The finalists will each spend a full day on the Hunter College campus,
culminating in a public address that will outline their vision for Centro
and explain how their scholarship and community involvement inform that
vision.  The candidates and their disciplinary and institutional
affiliations appear below, along with the dates, locations, and titles of
their respective presentations.  Each talk will take place from 5:00-6:30
p.m.
 
Thursday, November 15
Dr. Arlene Torres
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, Latina and Latino Studies Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
            Overlapping Discourses and Practices: (el detalle esta en la
costura) The Details are in the Stitch
            Chanin Language Center, Room B126 West (subway level)
 
Monday, November 19
Dr. Cesar Ayala
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles 
            Land Tenure and Social Structure in Puerto Rico, 1898-1934

            Chanin Language Center, Room B126 West (subway level)
 
Wednesday, November 28 
Dr. Aldo Lauria Santiago
Associate Professor, Departments of History and Latino and Hispanic
Caribbean Studies
Chair, Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Rutgers University 
            A Dialogue between Working Class History and Puerto Rican
Studies 
            Faculty Dining Room, 8th Floor West Building
 
Thursday, November 29 
Dr. Edwin Melendez
Professor, Management and Urban Policy
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy at the New School
            Towards a Shared Vision for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
            Faculty Lounge, 8th Floor West Building
 
RSVP to Miriam Galindez in the Provost's Office to inform us which
lecture(s) you would like to attend.  She can be reached at 212.772.4250 or
via email at [log in to unmask]  

President Jennifer Raab and I hope that you will attend the open sessions
and meet the candidates.  We would also like to take this opportunity to
thank the following members of the search committee for their dedicated
service:
 
Dr. Ellen Chesler
Director, Eleanor Roosevelt Women and Public Policy Initiative, Roosevelt
House Public Policy Institute
Hunter College
 
Dr. Héctor Cordero-Guzmán                                      
Chair, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies
Baruch College (on leave)
Program Officer
Ford Foundation
 
Ms. Mónica Cortés

Undergraduate Student, Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies and
Anthropology Hunter College
 
Mr. Pedro Juan Hernández

Acting Administrator, Centro Library and Archives
Hunter College 
 
Mr. Curtis Kendrick                         
University Librarian
The City University of New York
 
Dr. Lina Newton                                                             
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Hunter College
 
Dr. Andrés Torres

Interim Director, Centro
Hunter College 
 
Ms. Mayra Torres

Assistant Administrator, Centro
Hunter College
 
Mr. Xavier F. Totti

Lecturer, Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies; Editor,
Centro
Lehman College
 
Dr. Anahi Viladrich                                                
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Public Health
Hunter College
 
Ms. Taina Borrero                                    
External Affairs Coordinator
Hunter College
 
Mr. Hector Gesualdo (ex-officio)
Executive Director
ASPIRA of New York, Inc.
 
Thank you for your steadfast interest in Centro's continued success and
preeminence.  We look forward to hosting the Centro finalists on campus and
to introducing you to this exceptional slate of candidates. 

Sincerely,
Vita C. Rabinowitz
Provost and Chair of Centro Director Search Committee 


For more information on Centro Events, please visit http://centropr.org/events/index.html or call (212)772-5714.

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