Saberes raros and Postdictatorial Empiricism: A Tribute to E. Antonio Yaguarix De Moya Available to Purchase

Carlos Ulises Decena teaches at Rutgers University, where he chairs the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies. A queer studies scholar, he is the author of Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men (2011). His work has appeared in Small Axe as well as in other peer-reviewed publications. He is currently working on a manuscript called “Circuits of the Sacred.”

Fátima Portorreal Liriano studied anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. She completed a master’s in gender and development at the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, where she currently serves as a professor of social anthropology, social narratives of the Caribbean, and history of the Caribbean. She has carried out research studies on land tenure struggles and agrarian reform, and her essays have been published in the Boletín del Museo del Hombre Dominicana and in Ciencia y Sociedad.