Yarimar Bonilla

Associate Professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Anthropology. Blurring the lines between political and historical anthropology, she teaches and writes about political imaginaries, colonial legacies, and the politics of history in the Atlantic World. Her first book, Non-Sovereign Futures, examines the political possibilities that emerge in the wake of disenchantment with postcolonial sovereignty, through an ethnographic study of labor activism in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. She is currently at work on an ethnographic study of the Puerto Rican pro-statehood movement, tentatively titled The Unthinkable State, which seeks to interrogate how and why annexationism is being re-imagined as a form of anti-colonial politics.