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I’m Dr. Alessandra Rosa (she, her, hers)! I am a sociocultural anthropologist, professor, researcher, activist, public speaker, consultant, and academic coach & editor. Currently, I am teaching English in Spain through the NALCAP program as an “auxiliar de conversación”. Before moving to Spain, I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida (USF). Preceding this, I was a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. Elizabeth Aranda on an NSF grant about the experiences of Puerto Ricans who migrated to the United States after Hurricanes Irma and Maria to understand the challenges and/or opportunities they have faced since they arrived to Central Florida.
Before coming to USF, I was an assistant professor at Lynn University and a visiting instructor at Florida International University. My areas of expertise include social movements, digital activism, education, Latin America & Caribbean studies with a focus on Puerto Rican studies, women & gender studies, post-disaster migration studies, emotional well-being, media discourse analysis, and the intersection between ethnography and Latino/a/x/e health issues. As a transnational feminist scholar, I have dedicated my teaching, research, activism, and service to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. My work has been published in academic journals, electronic journals, book chapters, as well as non-academic outlets. My book manuscript Spatializing Protest: (re)Constructing Spaces of Resistance and Contention during the 2010-11 UPR Student Movement is soon to be published by the University of Nebraska Press.
alessandra rosa, Ph.D. 