Michael Staudenmaier is an independent scholar living in Chicago who writes about the history of the Puerto Rican diaspora, and about the cultural and political history of radical activism, especially anti-imperialism and anti-fascism, in the US and Latin America. His book, White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago, is forthcoming (spring 2026) from University of North Carolina Press, through its Latinx Histories series. He has worked in solidarity with the Puerto Rican independence movement in Chicago for more than three decades.
