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 16, 2026
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College has announced that it is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Rooted + Relational Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence, and Community Micro-Grant Programs. … Continued
May 01, 2026
The 2025-2026 theme, “Boricuas in Relation,” invited researchers to engage with the phenomenon of Boricua archipelagic and diasporic community formation with other racial and ethnic groups. Boricuas have long developed … Continued
June 10, 2026
Save the date for this 2-day symposium that seeks to bring together scholars, artists, and activists from the inhabited US territories and their diasporas to learn about shared struggles, relational … Continued
September 04, 2025
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) has announced the fellows and community micro-grant recipients selected for the second year of the “Rooted + Relational” research initiative. … Continued
May 21, 2025
Damayra I Figueroa-Lazu, CENTRO Research Coordinator, and Jorge R. Soldevila Irizarry, CENTRO Research Assistant, sat down with us and answered questions about data science and CENTRO’s Data Hub.
