The Marine Affairs Department welcomes Dr. Hilda Lloréns, an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences.  Dr. Lloréns’ research and writing are concerned with understanding how race, gender, socioeconomic class, the social practices of power and structural inequalities intersect in several areas of cultural and social life including cultural production and national representations, migration, the body, the environment and ecology in the Americas. Dr. Lloréns teaches cultural, linguistic, and environmental anthropology courses. She has published widely in academic journals as well as in popular readership on-line and print journals, magazines, and newspapers. She recently co-wrote a bilingual children’s book title La Justicia Ambiental es Para Ti y Para Mí/Environmental Justice is for You and Me (2021). Her academic books include Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century (2014) and Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (2021).