Africana Studies Program Department of Sociology 560 McBryde Hall (0137) Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA Phone: (540) 231-5651 E-Mail: petrarr@vt.edu EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley,African Diaspora Studies May 2010
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies May 2006
B.A. Harvard University, African American Studies magna cum laude with
highest honors in field. Certificate in Latin American Studies.
May 2003
Universidad de la Habana, Havana, Cuba. Semester Study Abroad
through Butler University December 2001 August –
POSITIONS HELD
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Virginia Tech
August 2012 – Present Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Richmond
Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies Richmond, VA
August 2010 – May 2012
ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Carter G. Woodson Institute Post-doctoral Residential Research and Teaching
Fellowship, University of Virginia (declined) 2012 Tocqueville Seminars Summer Institute, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 2011 Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2010 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council 2007 Puerto Rican Diaspora Research Grant, Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter
College)
2007 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 2007 Peter Rollins-Michael Shoenecke Conference Travel Grant, Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association 2007 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of 2005
California, Berkeley
Ford Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, National Academy of Sciences (3 years) 2004 Chancellor’s Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (3 years) 2004 Cornel West Prize in African American Studies, Harvard University 2003 Center for the Study of World Religions Undergraduate Thesis Grant, Harvard
University
2002 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Undergraduate Summer Research
Grant, Harvard University 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Articles
Rivera-Rideau, Petra R. From Carolina to Loíza: Race, Place, and Puerto Rican Racial Democracy. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 20, no. 5 (2013): 616-632. Rivera-Rideau, Petra R. “Cocolos Modernos: Salsa, Reggaetón, and the Cultural Politics of
Blackness.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 8, no. 1 (2013): 1-19.
Rivera, Petra R. “‘Tropical Mix’: Afro-Latino Space and Notch’s Reggaetón.” Popular Music and Society. 34, no. 2 (2011): 221-235.
Invited Book Reviews
Rivera-Rideau, Petra R. Review of Reggaeton, Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernández, eds. Duke University Press, 2009. Latino Studies, 11, no. 3 (2013): 450-452. Rivera, Petra R. “Triple Consciousness.” Transitions Magazine, No. 105 (2011): 156-163.
Review of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds. Duke University Press, 2010.
Rivera, Petra R. Review of Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas, University of Chicago Press, 2010. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 36, no. 71 (2011): 283-285.
Invited Encyclopedia Entry
Rivera-Rideau, Petra R. “Franco, Edgardo (El General).” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Franklin Knight, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
¡Todo Puerto Rico!: Race and Diaspora in Puerto Rican Reggaetón. Book manuscript under contract with Duke University Press.
“Puerto Rican and Black at the Same Time”: Racial Boundaries in the Representations of Carmelo and Lala Anthony. Article manuscript in progress.
Don Omar’s “Taboo”: Race and Sex in Racial Democracies. Article manuscript in progress. What is so Urban about Música Urbana? Article manuscript in progress.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
-“The Possibilities and Limits of Reggaetón as a Cultural Practice of Diaspora.” Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space, Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University. Chicago, IL. April 12, 2013.
-“Enter the Hurbans: Race, Reggaetón, and Latino Identities.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S. Branch Conference. Austin, TX. March 1, 2013.
-Roundtable participant, “Puerto Rican Popular Music in Lorain, Ohio.” American Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. November 18, 2012
-“Fingernails con Feeling: Love, Vengeance, and Race in Ivy Queen’s Reggaetón.” Latin American Studies Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. May 26, 2012.
-“Fingernails con Feeling: Love, Vengeance, and Race in Ivy Queen’s Reggaetón.” Cultural Studies Association Conference. San Diego, CA. March 31, 2012.
-“Black Boricua: Ambivalence, Place, and Blackness in Tego Calderón’s Reggaetón.” Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference. Hartford, CT. October 23, 2010.
-“Creating a Diaspora Space: Underground, Housing Projects, and Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico.” Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. October 8, 2010.
-“Base y Fundamento: Underground, Race, and Diaspora Space in Puerto Rico.” Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of California, Berkeley. March 20, 2010. -“‘Africa Me Llama’: Race, Place, and Diaspora in Tego Calderón’s Reggaetón.” St. Clair
Drake Forum, African American Studies Department, University of California Berkeley. May 12, 2009.
-“To Perrear or not to Perrear: Moral Panic, Reggaetón, and Female Sexuality in Puerto Rico. Latin Dance and Globalization Area at Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association National Conference. New Orleans, LA. April 9, 2009.
-“To Perrear or not to Perrear: Moral Panic, Reggaetón, and Female Sexuality in Puerto Rico.” Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. December 4, 2008.
-Roundtable Participant, “Historical and Theoretical Dimensions of Afro-Latino Identity.” Radical Philosophy Association Conference, San Francisco State University. November 8,
2008.
-“‘Soca, Reggae, Reggaetón, Tropical Mix’: Afro-Latino Spaces and Notch’s Reggaetón.” Race, and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) section of Latin American Studies Association Conference. University of California, San Diego. May 23, 2008.
-“‘Soca, Reggae, Reggaetón, Tropical Mix’: Afro-Latino Spaces and Notch’s Reggaetón.” “Theorizing Blackness” Conference, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. April 4, 2008.
-“Tegology/Tegología: Community and African Diaspora Space in Tego Calderón’s
Reggaetón.” “Global Movements, Local Identities: Race, Space, and the African Diaspora in Latin America.” Afro-Latino Working Group and UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. University of California, Los Angeles. March 6, 2008.
-“Placing Blackness: Representations of Race and Culture in Loíza, Puerto Rico.” Caribbean Studies Association. Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. May 31, 2007.
-“Hot Tamales: Racialization, Latinidad, and Popular Music in the U.S.” Annual St. Clair Drake Forum, African American Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley. May 14, 2007.
-“Hot Tamales: Racialization, Latinidad, and Popular Music in the U.S.” Black Music Culture Area, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Berklee College of Music. Boston, MA. April 6, 2007.
-“Bomba Ideology: Cultural Representations of Race and National Identity in Puerto Rico.” “‘Any Enemy of the Black Man is an Enemy of Me: Definitions of Afro-Latino and Afro-Latin American Identity in the New Millennium.” The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. March 17, 2006.
-“Cultural Representations of Race and National Identity in Puerto Rico.” Tinker Graduate Student Symposium, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. February 15, 2006.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
-“What About the Afro-Latinos?” Hispanich Heritage Month Keynote. Salem VA Medical Center. Salem, VA. September 26, 2013. Invited.
-Panelist, External Fellowships for Graduate Students Information Session. College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. September 5, 2013. Invited.
-“What About the Afro-Latinos?” Black History Month Event sponsored by Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. February 4, 2013. Invited.
-Roundtable Participant, Precious Knowledge film screening, Latin American and Iberian Studies Department, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. March 19, 2012. Invited.
-“Latino Popular Music and Identity.” Café con Leche Series, Office of Multicultural Affairs, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. January 26, 2012. Invited.
-“Puerto Ricans in Ohio.” Cultural Connections Series, Boatwright Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. October 5, 2011.
-“On Senators, Beauty Queens, and Strippers.” Latin American and Iberian Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. March 28, 2011.
-“Reggaetón Music, Race, and National Identity in Puerto Rico.” CubaCaribe Festival/Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA. April 15, 2010. Invited.
-“Representations of Blackness in Puerto Rico’s Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.” “Displaying Diaspora” Symposium, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA. October 23, 2009. Invited.
-“African Presence in the Spanish Caribbean.” African Presence in Mexico exhibit, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA. May 17, 2009. Invited.
-“History of Reggaetón.” Interview for La Raza Chronicles radio program at KPFA (FM 94.1). Berkeley, CA. February 24, 2010.
TEACHING
Virginia Tech
AFST 1714: Introduction to African American Studies Online. Spring 2013. AFST 1714: Introduction to African American Studies. Fall 2012.
University of Richmond
“Afro-Latina/o Identities in the U.S.”, Latin American and Iberian Studies. Developed with support of Pedagogical Grant for Tocqueville Seminars for Transnational American Studies. Spring 2012. “Latina/o Popular Music and Migration in the U.S.”, Latin American and Iberian Studies. Fall 2011. “U.S. Latina/o Literature”, Latin American and Iberian Studies. Spring 2011.
“The African Diaspora in Latin America”, Latin American and Iberian Studies. Fall 2010.
University of California, Berkeley
Instructor, “Afro-Latinos in the Spanish Caribbean”, African American Studies (intensive writing seminar). Summer 2010.
Advising
Advised Senior Research Projects presented at Senior Symposium, Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond, 2010-2012.
Teaching Awards
Favorite Faculty Award, Housing and Residence Life/Division of Student Affairs, Virginia Tech, 2012.
Teaching Interests: African Diaspora Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Latina/o Studies; Race & Ethnicity; Popular Culture; Interdisciplinary Methodologies
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Journal Referee
Occasional Manuscript Reviewer: Black Music Research Journal, Latino Studies, CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Conferences and Speaker Series
Panel Organizer, “Myth-Making, Modernity, and Representation in the Black Atlantic.”
Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space Conference, Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University. Chicago, IL. April 12-14, 2013.
Moderator (Invited), “Popular and Indigenous Musical Expression” panel, International Symposium on Latin American Music at Virginia Tech: Transcending Borders, Latin American Music and its Projection on the World Stage, Blacksburg, VA, February 22, 2013. Roundtable Organizer and Chair, “Puerto Rican Popular Music in Lorain, Ohio,” American
Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2012.
Afro-Latina/o Hip Hop Speaker Series Co-Organizer (Featuring Ariel Fernández Díaz and Raquel Z. Rivera), University of Richmond, February-March 2012.
Program Committee Member, Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, 2007 Conference Organizer, Afro-Latino Working Group, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Service
Library Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, August 2012-present
Teaching Excellence Committee, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, August 2012 – May 2013
Planning Committee Member, Latina/o Heritage Month, University of Richmond, 2011-2012
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association Association for Study of African Diaspora in the World
Latin American Studies Association International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S. Branch
Puerto Rican Studies Association
LANGUAGES
Spanish (Fluent) Portuguese (Conversant)
