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Cristina Pérez Jiménez specializes in Black, Latinx, and Caribbean cultural studies, with a focus on race and ethnicity; migration and diaspora studies; urban studies, especially NYC; histories of the left and ethnic social movements; and ethnic Digital Humanities. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and previously worked as an associate professor in the English, World Languages and Literatures Department at Manhattan University. She is a recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, among other national grants and awards.

Dr. Pérez Jiménez is the co-editor of a bilingual scholarly edition of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s Manhattan Tropics/Trópico en Manhattan (Arte Público, 2019). Her award-winning scholarship has appeared in Latino Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Post45, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, and American Quarterly. She is currently co-editing The Cambridge History of the Latino/a Novel, under contract with Cambridge University Press. Her book, Here to Stay: The Making of Latinx New York, forthcoming from Duke University Press, explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latinx cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s. After many years in the Bronx, Pérez Jiménez now lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where she enjoys making collages and bike riding.