I currently serve as Chair of the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Department (LACS).   I am also the Director of the Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC), and co-editor of the Latino (a) Research Review (formerly the Latino Review of Books). My current research interests focus on the application of postcolonial/subaltern and cultural studies theoretical approaches to the study of the Puerto Rican experience.  I have a forthcoming book (coauthored with C.E. Santiago) on Puerto Ricans in the U.S.: A Portrait of a Commuter Nation.  I am working on the book manuscript, Imagining the Nation: Colonialism, Migration, and Puerto Rican Culture which analyzes different contructions of the Puerto Rican nation. I am also focusing on how transnationalism and globalization processes are shaping contemporary Latino (a) identities. Two articles related to the latter are: "Border Transgressions: Revisiting the Concept of Nuestra América" in L. Goldin, ed. Identities on the Move (in press), and "U.S. Latina and Latin American Feminism’s: Hemispheric Encounters" (with C.E. Bose) in the journal Signs (1999). I have co-authored with some of my LACS colleagues the book The Puerto Rican Diaspora: its History and Contributions (2000).  Some of my past publications include: The Puerto Rican Woman: Perspectives on Culture, History, and Society, The Hispanic Experience in the United States (with B.R. Sjostrom), Researching Women in Latin American and the Caribbean (with C.E. Bose), and Women in the Latin American Development Process (with C.E. Bose).