He joined the faculty at Vassar in 2009 after receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His primary research interests focus on the relationship between Caribbean and Latino/a racial formations and identities. His dissertation, “Disrupting Declamations of Freedom: The Enlistment of Race Within and Against Racial Regimes in Puerto Rico” examines the role that culture and translocal politics play in reaffirming and/or disrupting state produced narratives of race in Puerto Rico and the United States.