Projects

• Aging and its Tropes

  (Columbia University)

• Community Commons

• The Transformative Potential of Disaster: Ethics of Care in Puerto Rico after Maria

  (Kalamazoo College)

biography

Dr. Adriana Garriga-Lopez is an anthropologist, poet, and performance artist. Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College. She is currently preparing her manuscript, Viral Citizens: the Coloniality of HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico for publication. Interests: Caribbean social theory and criticism; sex work; epidemics; decolonial, postcolonial, and subaltern theory; theories and ethnographies of the body; psychoanalysis; feminism and queer theory; vulnerable forms of embodiment; and theories of sovereignty and imperialism. Since 2000, involved in research on the representation of blackness in epidemic contexts, particularly Ebola representations in mass media

research interests