Samiri Hernandez-Hiraldo
- samiri.hiraldo@famu.edu
- PHONE
- 850-599-3316
- OFFICE
- Sociology
Perry Paige Bldg Room #408B
Mondays • 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays • 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Thursdays • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Anthropology (Section 2) • Mondays — 5:45 pm -8:15 pm
Introduction to Anthropology (Section 1) • Tuesdays — 5:45 pm -8:15 pm
Women in Religion • Tue.Thu — 8:00 am - 9:15 am
Dr. Samiri Hernández Hiraldo is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and in the Department of Visual Arts, Humanities and Theatre at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), where she teaches Introduction to Anthropology, Peoples of the World, and Women in Religion. She offers in-depth curricula in anthropology, religion, Latin American and Caribbean history, and the Latino and the Puerto Rican experience in the United States with an emphasis on the comparative perspective and on the topics of gender, race, the environment, and migration. Before coming to FAMU, Dr. Hernández Hiraldo taught at the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Michigan, and at Florida State University.
Dr. Hernández Hiraldo has published several academic works, including her book, Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience, and is currently conducting research about the merging of reafricanization, the arts, community, the environment, and sustainability in Puerto Rico. She has also published four poetic ethnographic collections and contributed to dozens of anthologies and academic and literary journals.
Currently, she is the Director of the International Forum for Literature and the Culture of Peace-Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora, an intercultural organization that facilitates the exchange of ideas, knowledge, literature, and resources between the academia, artists, and members of diverse communities around the world.
- Religion
- Women in Religion; Identity, Race, Gender, Community Activism;
- Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Migration, Transnationalism, Environmentalism & Sustainability;
- Latin America, the Caribbean, Latinos, Afro-Latinxs in the United States, Puerto Rico;
- Literary Anthropology, Ethnopoetics, Ethnographic Poetry/Poetic Ethnography, Oral History/Personal Story
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • June 2000
Ph.D. in Anthropology (with an emphasis on religion; Latin America and the Caribbean)
Dissertation: Searching for Meaning: Religious Pluralism and Identity in a Puerto Rican Town. - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • December 1994
M.A. in Anthropology - University of Puerto Rico, San Juan • June 1991
B.A. in Anthropology (Magna Cum Laude)
- Adjunct Professor • Present
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Ethnographic Methods and Techniques
- Anthropological Theory
- Language and Culture
- Anthropology of Religion
- Women in Religion
- Women’s Cross-cultural Religious Experience
- Women, Hinduism, and Feminist Critique
- Peoples of the World
- Minorities in the United States
- Introduction to Latino Studies
- South African Ethnography