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