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.
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
April 21, 2025
In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from New York City’s Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Fordham University. Infamously called “the Puerto Rican Slum” and “the worst slum in New York,” by the architect of New York’s Urban Renewal Process, Robert Moses, Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill were home to approximately 2,000 Puerto Ricans.
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.
May 21, 2025
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is excited to announce its new fellows for its Rooted + Relational Summer Research and Artist-In-Residence: Alexandria Ramos, Assistant Professor … Continued
