Alaí Reyes-Santos is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Oregon. She completed her bachelor’s degree in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and her doctoral degree in Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her interdisciplinary research on Haitian-Dominican and Dominican-Puerto Rican relations, and racial and gender dynamics in the Caribbean and its U.S. diasporas, has been published by Callaloo, Revue Européene des Migrations Internationales and Revista Estudios Sociales, among other venues. Her book Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles has been published by Rutgers University Press in 2015.
Reyes-Santos is also an award-winning educator, and a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. As an activist-scholar, she has served as consultant for educational projects, non-profit organizations, and human rights organizations addressing the needs of migrants, women, and LGBT, Afro-descendant and indigenous peoples in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.
She is originally from Cidra, Puerto Rico.
