{"id":17555,"date":"2025-04-22T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=17555"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:00:43","slug":"hilda-llorens-is-named-cornille-distinguished-scholar-at-wellesley-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/hilda-llorens-is-named-cornille-distinguished-scholar-at-wellesley-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilda Llor\u00e9ns is named Cornille Distinguished Scholar at Wellesley College"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, RI \u2013 April 22 \u2013 <\/span>Hilda Llor\u00e9ns, professor of <\/span>anthropology<\/span><\/a>, gender & women studies<\/a>, and marine affairs<\/a> has been appointed as the 2025-2026 Cornille Distinguished Scholar at Wellesley College. Llor\u00e9ns will begin her residency in the fall of 2025 at the <\/span>Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities<\/span><\/a> and will continue through the academic year to complete her latest book.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cI feel deeply honored and privileged to be selected as the 2025-26 Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor,\u201d said Llor\u00e9ns. \u201cI am excited for the opportunity to be in a community with excellent faculty and learners there and for the focused time to work on my current book manuscript.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>The book <\/span>Nature Practices: The Latinx Outdoors at the End of Nature<\/span><\/i> combines ethnographic fieldwork with analysis of cultural production to document the relationship of Latinx populations with nature and the outdoors in the United States. Subjects of study will include uses, perceptions, and representations of the outdoors, as well as findings about equity, access, the \u201cnature gap,\u201d nature deprivation, and the \u201cnature deficit disorder\u201d among Latinx populations.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Nature deprivation refers to having little to no access to safe green environments. These persistent inequities are the result of the systemic racism people of color in the U.S. historically experience in virtually all areas of life. In this project, \u201cnature\u201d refers to both a place outside humans and one that includes humans. It also refers to a set of conceptual ideas humans have created about the world and how we fit it.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cAs a cultural anthropologist and environmental humanities scholar, I think this residency attests to URI\u2019s support for the inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching that I do. Additionally, it highlights that Wellesley values and nurtures the justice\/advocacy-oriented, and inclusive scholarship that I produce,\u201d said Llor\u00e9ns<\/p>\n

<\/span>Llor\u00e9ns\u2019 research, writing, and teaching focus on race, gender, ecology & environment, and culture & power in the Americas. Prof. Llor\u00e9ns has written about these topics in academic journals and books, in popular readership online, and in print magazines. Her research is centrally concerned with critiquing structural inequalities and dismantling notions of power that have been taken for granted.<\/p>\n

<\/span>She is committed to anti-racist, decolonial, inclusive thought, research, and pedagogy. At URI, she teaches Gender & Culture, Critical Island Studies, Decolonial Ecologies, and Anthropological Theory & Practice, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Llor\u00e9ns will begin her residency in the fall of 2025 at the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities and will continue through the academic year to complete her latest book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5153,"featured_media":17556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[340,292,7,360],"tags":[242,70,109],"class_list":["post-17555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-spotlights","category-impact","category-news","category-research","tag-anthropology","tag-gender-and-womens-studies","tag-sociology-and-anthropology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17557,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions\/17557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}