LUIS JAVIER CINTRÓN-GUTIÉRREZ
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Lives & works in Albany, New York
​profile at academia.edu and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2666-6260
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

EDUCATION

Ph.D in Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Cultural Studies. 2021 (Expected).
University at Albany - State University of New York (SUNY)

Examination: Transnational Hispanic Caribbean (Geographical Area); Capitalism as a social and cultural construction (Theoretical Approach); and Narco/Culture (Research Interest)

​M.A. in Communications in Mass Media and Contemporary Culture. Spring 2020 (Expected) 
Ferré Rangel School of Communications, 
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón,

M.A. in Sociology (with Distinction). June 2016
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recintro Río Piedras,
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B.A. in Political Sciences. October 2010
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Visiting Instructor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
  • SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2019)
  • SOC 331 - Social Research Methods (Fall 2019 to present)

University at Albany, SUNY
Part-time Lecturer (Discussion Sections)
Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S, Latino Studies
  • ​ALCS 100 – Culture and Power in Americas (Professor Alejandra Bronfman, Spring 2020)
Part-time Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literature and Cultures
  • ASPN 101 – Elementary Spanish II (Fall 2018, to present )
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor of record) 
Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S, Latino Studies
  • ​ALCS 100 – Culture and Power in Americas, (Fall 2017 & Spring 2018)​

Sacred Heart University
Workshop Instructor and Mentor, Centro de Vinculación Comunitaria
  • Estadística Social: Práctica con el programa Microsoft Excel 2007 [Social Statistics practice with Microsoft Excel 2007]. Workshop given at Centro de Vinculación Comunitaria, Spring 2012
  • Workshop Instructor, Estadística Social y el uso de InfoStat [Social Statistics and use of InfoStat program]. Workshop given at Centro de Vinculación Comunitaria, Spring 2011​

RECENT
​RESEARCH  EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. (January 2016 to June 2016). Advised by Lidia Marte PhD.

Researcher (P.I.), Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. (December 2014 to present). Project: A Socio-economic Review of Caño Tiburones - Arecibo/Barceloneta. $36,000 - awarded by US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program.
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Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Social Research, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. (September 2012 to June 2014). Advised by Emilio Pantojas-García PhD.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. (2019). Entre “hacer historia” y “¡Qué me velen para’o!”: velorios exóticos y marginalidad contemporánea en San Juan de Puerto Rico. Cuadernos Inter·C·A·mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, 16(1). DOI: 10.15517/c.a..v16i1.36498 

BOOKS SECTIONS, CHAPTERS  & PROCEEDINGS 
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, L. J. (2015). Aspectos Sociológicos Sobre la Narco-cultura y los Ritos Funerarios en Puerto Rico: El Caso de la Muerte del “Chacal de Llorens Torres”. In M. del C. Quintero Aguiló, G. J. Jiménez Fuentes, M. J. Haynes, D. Ursulin Mopsus, & G. Mejía González (Eds.), Caribbean Without Border: Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

BOOK REVIEWS
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. (2019). Review of the book Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean ed. by Maarit Forde and Yanique Hume]. Caribbean Studies 47(2), 164-166.  doi:10.1353/crb.2019.0022.
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SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS 
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. (2019,May). “#QueCuenten: Deaths, Journalism, Politics, and Memory in Puerto Rico After Hurricane María.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2019. Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. [Conference Paper]
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Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. (2018, May). “Death, Marginality, Images and Performance: Contemporary wake ceremonies in inner city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.” XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2018. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, May 24. [Conference Paper]

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. (2019, April 5) "... más allá de la frontera nos imponen la Guerra’: The Representation of the Contemporary US – Mexico Economic and Political Relations in Ingobernable”. Economic Imaginaries in the Literature and Cinema of Spain and Latin America Symposium. Lehman College - CUNY, Bronx, New York, United States of America. [Conference Paper]

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, L.J. (April 2017, April). “In quest of legitimacy inside the prison: Manifestations of a “consumption society” on the walls of State Penitentiary “Oso Blanco” in Puerto Rico.  XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2017, Lima, Perú. [Conference Paper]

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, L.J. (2016, May). “El que fantasme’h está muerto”: necropolítica y consumo en Puerto Rico visto desde reggeatón.  XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2016, New York, NY, USA.  [Conference Paper]

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, L.J. (2015, December). “Una mirada a la cultura e identidad(es) del narco en Puerto Rico desde los ritos funerarios” [A cultural and identities aspects of the narco in Puerto Rico since the funeral rites”]. XXX Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociología - ALAS 2015 (XXX Latin American Congress of Sociology - ALAS 2015), San José, Costa Rica.  [Conference Paper]

MAGAZINES
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, L. J. (2019, November 22). Puerto Rico contemporáneo ¿narco-estado o Capitalismo Gore?. 80grados. [reprinted in Claridad, and Kaos en la Red] 

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, L. J. (2013). Persépolis y la “revolución” que fue dibujada: Una reflexión desde la sociedad de vigilancia, el biopoder y las identidades en la Revolución Islámica. Cruce, 2, pp. 63-69.

AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS

Research Fellowship, United States Fish and Wildlife Service - Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program and Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. ($36,000, Project: Socio-economic Review of Caño Tiburones - Arecibo/Barceloneta)
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Academic Recognition, Dean of Social Sciences Faculty, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. (May 2014)​


Last update: Feb.2020

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