Degree(s)

Ph.D (Cantab), M.A (Columbia University)

Research interests

I am a Research Fellow in the Study of Race and Anti-Racism in Gonville & Caius College and an Affiliate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, I was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Cambridge after I completed my Ph.D. in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. My areas of expertise are in the sociology of health and illness and historical sociology with a focus on scientific racism, critical eugenics studies, and reproductive justice in the Americas.

Publications

Books

2024 Eugenic Legacies and The Fight for Reproductive Justice, (SAGE Publishing-Under Contract)

Special Issues

2023 The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America, Bulletin of Latin American Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

2023 Sánchez-Rivera, R. & Mackenzie, S. Queering Covid. Sociology (Forthcoming)

2023 Sánchez-Rivera, R; Peña, Glorimarie. Internalized Eugenics and Hygienic Codes in Puerto Rican Trap and Reggaetón, Caribbean Studies (Forthcoming)

2022 Interrogating Coloniality and Reproductive Coercion in Puerto Rico in Light of Roe v. Wade, Fieldsights: Society for Cultural Anthropology

2022 Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America, Bulletin of Latin American Research (DOI: 10.1111/blar.13357)

2022 From Preventive Eugenics to Slippery Eugenics: Contemporary Sterilizations Targeted to Indigenous Peoples in Mexico, Sociology of Health & Illness (DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13556)

2022 Dystopian Eugenics and Mestizo Futurisms in Eduardo Urzaiz’s Eugenia, Bulletin of Latin American Studies (DOI: 10.1111/blar.13395)

2021 The Making of La Gran Familia Mexicana: Eugenics, Gender, and Sexuality in Mexico, Journal of Historical Sociology, Issue 1 (DOI: 10.1111/johs.12308)            

2020 The Legacies of “Race” Science, Anti-Chinese Racism, and COVID-19 in Mexico, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 39 (S1), 35-38

2020 Reggaetón, Trap y Masculinidades: Dinámicas sociales a ritmo del perreo combativo en Puerto Rico (Reggaetón, Spanish Trap, and Masculinities in Puerto Rico), Taller de letras in association with Tintas, Special Issue: Adiós a las Armas: Despatriarcar a América desde la cultura: 42-55

2017 Imágenes y representaciones de control de natalidad, esterilización y anticonceptivos en la prensa puertorriqueña: El Mundo, El Imparcial y Claridad de 1943 a 1974. (Images and Representations of Population Control, Sterilization Procedures and Contraceptives in the Puerto Rican Press), De Raíz Diversa-Revista Especializada en Estudios Latinoamericanos Vol.4, No.7: 101-36.

Book Chapters

2023 Sánchez-Rivera, R & Tanna, Natasha. Counterarchiving Coloniality in the Americas: Rita Indiana’s ‘After School’ (Forthcoming)

2023 “Whatever…it is Only a Joke?!”: Exploring Memes, Racialization, and Discrimination in Puerto Rico during Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and COVID-19 in Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin/x America (Forthcoming)

2019 Posicionalidades: Queerness y Eugenesia en Latinoamérica (Positionalities: Queerness and Eugenics in Latin America) in Libro de Actas: Del Otro Lao’

Academic Publications

2022 “Los legados de la eugenesia en la construcción de la belleza en Latinoamérica: Una perspectiva interseccional”, Piel Alterna: Revista Política Poética

2022 Murillo et al. “Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control”, NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality

2021 Sánchez-Rivera, R. & O’ Shaughnessy A. “Disability, Decoloniality, and Displacement: Exploring Reproductive (In)Justices with the Reproductive Justice Research Network”: ReproBlog

2021 O’Shaughnessy A. & Sánchez-Rivera, R. “An Introduction to the Reproductive Justice Research Network”: ReproBlog

2021 Ogden, R. & Sánchez-Rivera, R. “Exploring reproductive politics, health, and justice in Latin America”: the ‘Cuerpa Politica’ podcast, Institute of Latin American Studies Blog

2020 “Shilling for US Empire in Puerto Rico”: The Legacies of Scientific Racism in Economic Science, The Abusable Past at the Radical History Review.

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2023 HSS-Research Framework, University of Cambridge (3,000GBP)

2022 British Academy (BA), Conference Grant (12,000GBP)

2022 British Sociological Association (BSA), Early Career Forum (1,000GBP)

2022 SRI Reproduction- Reproductive Justice Research Network (5,000GBP)

2021 UKRI-COVID Fieldwork Fund, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (6,980GBP)

2021 Wellcome Trust-Changing Infertilities, Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) for Reproductive Justice Research Network (3,000GBP)

2021 SRI-Reproduction, University of Cambridge-Events Fund (2,000GBP)

2021 Postdoctoral Award for Research Endeavor, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (250GBP)

2020 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (123,019 GBP)

2020 Teaching Award, Supervisor Award, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (100 GBP)

2020 Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), School of Advanced Study-University of London, Events Grant Scheme-Podcast Series, “The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America (900 GBP)

2019 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, Conference Travel Grant (800 GBP)

2019 Global Challenges Research Fund, University of Kent: International Conference for “The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America” (4,247 GBP)

2019 Society for Latin American Studies, Conference and Seminar Grants: Seminar Series and Reading Groups for “The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America” (500 GBP)

2018 Faculty Research Group Support, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, for “International Black Radicalism” (1337.50 GBP)

2018 Simon Bolivar Fund, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (1200 GBP)

2018 Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Travel Grant (350 GBP)

2017 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, Conference and Travel Grant (800 GBP)

2017 Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Travel Grant (350 GBP)

2017 Simon Bolivar Fund, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (250 GBP)

2016 Santander Mobility Grant, Fieldwork-Mexico City (1000 GBP)

2014 Dissertation Field Research Travel Grant, Columbia University in the City of New York, Fieldwork-Puerto Rico (500 USD)