Amanda Rivera

Amanda Rivera is a sixth year PhD Candidate in American Studies, pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race and Migration. She uses historical anthropology to analyze how Puerto Ricans in New Haven, Connecticut use education as a tool towards building community and negotiating their racialized, classed, and gendered belonging as minoritized citizen-subjects, from the 20th-century to present day. Amanda draws from a variety of methodologies, including ethnographic interviews, oral histories, participant observation, and archival analyses, towards fleshing out town-gown relations between Yale University, Puerto Rican New Haveners, and other communities of Color in the city; as well as towards addressing how Puerto Ricans utilize multiple educational projects (bilingual education, higher education, and cultural education) to demonstrate their visibility amidst shifting Latiné landscapes in the Elm City.