Yarimar Bonilla
Yarimar Bonilla is Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center.
Bonilla teaches and writes about sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has written about anti-colonial movements in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and the politics of post-hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico.
Academic Interests
- Sovereignty & Non-Sovereignty
- Race, Colonialism, Social Movements, Citizenship, Empire,
- American/Ethnic/Caribbean Studies, Political Anthropology
- Digital Humanities & Public Scholarship
Digital projects
Recent Publications
Books
- Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol Lebrón) Chicago: Haymarket Books. (2019)
- Non-Sovereign Future? French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (2015)
Articles
- Quick, Quick, Slow: Ethnography in the Digital Age. In Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment, Carole Ann McGranahan (Ed.) Durham: Duke University Press, 2019
- Deprovincializing Trump, Decolonizing Diversity, and Unsettling Anthropology (by Jonathan Rosa & Yarimar Bonilla) American Ethnologist 44(2):201-208 (2017)
- Unsettling Sovereignty. Cultural Anthropology 32(3):330-339 (2019)
- #Ferguson: Digital Activism, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media. (by Yarimar Bonilla & Jonathan Rosa) American Ethnologist 42(1):4-17 (2015)
- Ordinary Sovereignty. Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism. Vol. 13 no. 3 issue 42): 152-65 (2013)
Public Scholarship
