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Dr. Pérez is a cultural anthropologist whose research agenda focuses on state-led development processes in the present context of cultural and economic globalization. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the United States. Currently, he is Coordinator of the Anthropology Program as well as the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
In 2013, Dr. Pérez guest-curated a museum exhibit on the history of Latin American and Caribbean migration to eastern Connecticut for the Windham Textile and History Museum.
The Promise of Globalization: Sustainable Tourism Development and Environmental Policy in Cuba. In Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism, edited by Catherine Krull. pp. 160-175. 2014. University Press of Florida.
On the Cuban Road to Development: Reflections on Sustainable Tourism, Environmental Conservation, and Globalization. Newsletter of the Society for Applied Anthropology, 21(3): 47-49, August 2010.
The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico. 2005. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
Unbound Households: Trajectories of Labor, Migration, and Transnational Livelihoods in (and from) Southern Puerto Rico. In Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics, edited by Lillian Trager, pp. 49-75. 2005. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
Narrating Memories: Discourses of Development and the Environment in a Puerto Rican Coastal Region, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vol. 14, No. 2:210-227, Fall 2002.