Kiana González Cedeño is Assistant Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research explores the affective afterlives of colonialism in Puerto Rican culture through a decolonial feminist lens. Her book project, A Colony’s Lament, theorizes lamentation as method and resistance. She centers Black Puerto Rican cultural expression—dance, music, literature—as grief work and refusal. Co-lead of After the Storm, a digital humanities collective archiving testimonios from Afro-Caribbean women facing disaster, her work bridges cultural analysis, ethnography, and digital archiving. Her writing appears in CENTRO Journal
