Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Ph.D. 2016, Columbia University) is an assistant professor of English at Manhattan College. She specializes in U.S. Latinx and Caribbean cultural studies with a focus on race and ethnicity, migration and diaspora studies, urban studies, especially NYC, and histories of the left and ethnic social movements.
Dr. Pérez Jiménez was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2019-2020. She was also awarded the 2016 Bancroft Dissertation Prize, the 2017 Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Studies Section Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the 2018 Biennial Puerto Rican Studies Association Dissertation Award, among other recognitions.
She is the co-editor of a bilingual scholarly edition of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s Manhattan Tropics/Trópico en Manhattan (Arte Público, 2019), winner of a 2020 International Latino Book Award. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Post45, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, CENTRO Journal: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, and American Quarterly. Her book project entitled Here to Stay: The Making of Latinx New York explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latinx cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s.
Dr. Pérez Jiménez currently serves as the Race and Ethnicity in the Profession delegate to the Assembly of the Modern Language Association.