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Samiri Hernandez-Hiraldo, Ph.D.

Assistant in Anthropology
Phone: (850)645-7844
Fax: (850) 645-0032
Email: shiraldo@fsu.edu
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Research Interests and Activities

  • Religion, Ritual
  • Identity, Race, Gender
  • Religion and Politics, Transnationalism
  • Latin America and the Hispanic-Caribbean
  • Latinos in the United States
  • Puerto Rico

Teaching Specializations

  • History of Anthropological Theory
  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Women's Cross-cultural Religious Experience
  • Language and Culture
  • Peoples of the World
  • Minorities in the United States
  • Latino Studies
  • Puerto Rican Studies

Select Publications and Writing Projects

2006 Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
"Transnational and Interreligious Dynamics on the Sociopolitical Experience of a Racialized Puerto Rican Community in Connecticut." Chapter included in the book manuscript, "Bendición Politics: New Perspectives on Latino Religion and Politics," submitted for publication to the University of Texas Press at Austin.
2006 "If God Were Black and From Loíza: Managing Identities in a Puerto Rican Seaside Town." In Latin American Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications 33:66-82.
2001 "Reinterpretando la religión en Loíza: Un estudio antropológico de la experiencia de testificar de dos ancianos (Reinterpreting Religion in Loíza: an Anthropological Study of the Witnessing Experience of Two Elders)." In Revista de Ciencias Sociales. Río Piedras, PR: University of Puerto Rico Press 10:105-139.
1993 "El discurso productivo agrícola ganadero hispano-puertorriqueño en Adjuntas: 1815-1820," co-author with Dr. Carlos Buitrago, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico. In Revista de Ciencias Sociales. Río Piedras, PR: University of Puerto Rico Press 3:283-319.
Research in Progress
"The Religious and Sociopolitical Implications of Protestant Music among Puerto Ricans in the Island and in the Mainland in the Last Three Decades."