publications

peer-reviewed academic journal articles:

Escue, Melanie, Elizabeth Aranda, and Alessandra Rosa (2023). “Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health of Puerto Rican Post-Disaster Migrants.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/07399863231205337 .

Blackwell, Rebecca, Elizabeth Aranda, and Alessandra Rosa. (2023). “We always remember the Island”: Puerto Rican climate migrants’ emotional meanings of home. Emotion, Space, and Society 49 (August 25), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100974

Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell, Melanie Escue, and Alessandra Rosa. (2023). “Cascading Disasters: The Impact of Hurricane Maria and Covid-19 on Post-Disaster Puerto Ricaan Migrants’ Adaptation and Integration in Florida. Latino Studies, 21: 138-161 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00390-3

Blackwell, Rebecca, Alessandra Rosa and Elizabeth Aranda. (2021) “¿Nuestro nuevo hogar? [Our new home?]: Examining Puerto Rican migration and their conceptions of home, placemaking, and belonging.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, 9 (2): 208-229.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell and Alessandra Rosa. (2021). “Even if they promise, you know it won’t happen”: Ontological Insecurity from Overlapping Collective and Cultural Trauma. CENTRO Journal, 33(1): 89-111.

Rosa, Alessandra (2016). Student Activists’ Affective Strategies during the 2010-2011 Siege of the University of Puerto Rico. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 36(11/12), 824-842. doi: 10.1108/IJSSP-12-2015-0149

Rosa, Alessandra (2013). Cantos y Consignas: (Re)constructing Spaces of Resistance. Essay Dialogues in Mobilizing Ideas. <https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/cantos-y-consignas- reconstructing-spaces-of-resistance/>

Rosa, Alessandra (2013). Art: (Re)constructing Spaces of Resistance. Daily Disruption in MobilizingIdeas. <http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/art-reconstructing-spaces-of- resistance/#more-5012>

Rosa, Alessandra (2013). Student Activism: (re)Constructing Spaces of Resistance. Public Education: Crisis and Dialogue at the University of Puerto Rico in Sargasso 2011-2012, 1, 73-76.

Rosa, Alessandra (2013). Chronology of the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike. Public Education: Crisis and Dialogue at the University of Puerto Rico in Sargasso 2011-2012, 1, xxxiii-xlvi.

Rosa, Alessandra (2009). Aprendiendo a Desaprender: una Reforma para el Sistema de Educacion Publica en Puerto Rico. Teoria y Praxis Investigativa 4(1), 47-54.


book chapters:

Rosa, Alessandra, Elizabeth Aranda and Hilary Dotson. (2021). “You are not allowed to speak Spanish! This is an American hospital!”: Puerto Ricans’ Experiences with Linguistic Discrimination and Otherness in Central Florida. In José A. Cobas (ed.), The Spanish Language in the United States: Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance. New York: Routledge.

Rosa, Alessandra (2018). Una Universidad Tomada: Resistance Performances during the first wave of the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement. In Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph T. Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, & Julia Roth (Eds.), Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics, and Politics (pp. 169-193). New York: Routledge.


book reviews:

Rosa, Alessandra (2023) Book review of Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua by Marisol Lebrón. New West Indian Guide (NWIG) Journal 97(1-2) 182-83.

Rosa, Alessandra (2022) Book review of Latino Orlando: Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict, by Simone Delerme. CENTRO Journal 34(1) 2-5.


non-peer review articles & reports:

*Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell, Melanie Escue, Maritza Novoa-Hadley, and Alessandra Rosa. (2020). Report on Puerto-Rican Post-Disaster Migration Survey. Prepared for Mujeres Restauradas Por Dios. https://www.puertoricanmigration.com/ [*authors are in alphabetical order]

Aranda, Elizabeth and Alessandra Rosa. (2019). “Puerto Ricans Unite Against Roselló – and more than a Decade of Cultural Trauma.” The Conversation August 2, 2019. https://theconversation.com/puerto-ricans-unite-against-rossello-and-more-than-a-decade-of-cultural-trauma-121085. [This article was reprinted in various outlets including San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate, Newsify, Latino Rebels, Truthout and International Policy Digest.]

Arroyo-Flores, Juan, Alessandra Rosa and Elizabeth Aranda. (2019). Understanding Puerto Rican voting in the United States. <https://scholars.org/contribution/understanding-puerto-rican-voting-united- states>

Aranda, Elizabeth, Juan Arroyo-Flores and Alessandra Rosa. (2019). Report: The Puerto Rican vote nationwide and in Florida.

Rosa, Alessandra (2014). “Nunca olvidar”: A Brief History of the University of Puerto Rico Student Movement. Chapter 14: Paro/Huelga in Esta Vida Boricua

Rosa, Alessandra, Tina Orlandini & Stephan Andreas. (2013). smArt Action: ¡a Estudiar y a Luchar!. ARC Magazine. Issue 7, 112-117.

Rosa, Alessandra & Carlos Hernandez. (2010). Pobreza, Desigualdad y Apoderamiento Comunitario: Bienvenidos a la Comunidad de Juan Domingo en Guaynabo. Revista de Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción. Verano 2010, 15-16.


works in progress:

Rosa, Alessandra (In progress). Performing Motherhood: Conscious Parenting as a Latina Mother in the Diaspora

Rosa, Alessandra (In progress). Notes on Doing Empathic Ethnography during a Global Pandemic