CENTRO's Research Unit is an interdisciplinary hub that brings together students, scholars, and community partners to investigate urgent themes facing our communities. Over the past decades our scholars have produced benchmark publications that have transformed the field of Puerto Rican Studies and timely reports that have shaped national debate, most recently in regard to Puerto Rico's economic crisis, austerity politics, post-disaster migration and hurricane recovery.
March 31, 2025
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies invites applications for the 2025-2026 cohort of the CENTRO Research Fellows Program. This program convenes scholars, writers, and faculty in a cohort model that … Continued
August 29, 2024
What is the state of Puerto Rican archives, archival theory, and archival practices? What are the roots of Puerto Rican studies and how can we best tend to its past and futures? How is our field engaging with contestation, archival reckoning, accessibility, quotidian interventions, and forms of archival refusal? Archives,…
May 14, 2025
In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from the Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the … Continued
November 13, 2024
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College has announced the recipients of its inaugural Community Micro-Grants for the Rooted + Relational Micro-Grant 2024-2025 Program. CENTRO has awarded … Continued
