In her book Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, associate professor Hilda Lloréns chronicles the lives of women in Puerto Rico who draw on deep cultural knowledge to navigate myriad environmental challenges.

The Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island congratulates Dr. Hilda Lloréns for winning the first Peace Award for the URI faculty and staff.

It started as a walking tour in 2019, and now you can take it for credit. URI Campus: A Walk Through Time is a new multidisciplinary undergraduate course that examines the history of the land on which the Kingston campus sits.

Coordinated by sociology professor Julie Keller, URI hosted an event in Fall 2021 by Migrant Justice, a nonprofit organization based in Vermont that focuses on labor rights and economic justice for migrant workers within the dairy industry while encompassing a variety of intersectional issues.

Dr. Hilda Llorens discusses her new book, Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice.

A demographer who specializes in China, Melanie Brasher has long heard the question, “Will China grow old before it grows rich?” With the recent release of China’s 10-year census, that question is resurfacing.

Julia Santini ’21 expects to call upon lessons learned in each of her three majors—biology, sociology, and Italian—as a medical doctor.

Dr. Hilda Lloréns has been awarded a Humanities Center subvention grant for her forthcoming book on Afro-descendant women of Puerto Rico’s coastal communities.

While still an undergraduate, Leah Hopkins ’20 became the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s first community engagement specialist. Her job: Collaborate with academic institutions, create educational programming, and raise the profile of Indigenous and tribal communities.

Sociology professors Melanie Brasher, Alana Bibeau, and Christine Zozula hosted a discussion panel on October 29, 2020 that featured two of the Rhode Island Survivor players and addressed complex issues of race and racism that played a prominent role during the 39th season of the game (2019).
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