Rosalyn Negrón

Rosalyn Negrón is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in the Critical Ethnic and Community Studies program, as well as the Latino Studies program. She is Research Director for the Sustainable Solutions Lab and leads the Transdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Program at UMass Boston. Rosalyn's research examines the role of complex social environments on the decisions that people make for their social, economic, and physical well-being: these include migration and health decisions, identity negotiations, linguistic and educational choices. A past Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Rosalyn’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She has done research in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Florida, New York City, and Boston. A transdisciplinary scholar, Rosalyn works across all traditional sub-fields of anthropology (cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological) and teaches qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. She is also an emerging documentary filmmaker, having produced two films, one of which, "More than Mas'" has been shown at local and international film festivals. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida in 2007.  

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