Perry Paige Bldg Room #408B
Mondays • 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays • 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Thursdays • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Anthropology (Section 2) • Mondays — 5:45 pm -8:15 pm
Introduction to Anthropology (Section 1) • Tuesdays — 5:45 pm -8:15 pm
Women in Religion • Tue.Thu — 8:00 am - 9:15 am
Dr. Samiri Hernández Hiraldo is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and in the Department of Visual Arts, Humanities and Theatre at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), where she teaches Introduction to Anthropology, Peoples of the World, and Women in Religion. She offers in-depth curricula in anthropology, religion, Latin American and Caribbean history, and the Latino and the Puerto Rican experience in the United States with an emphasis on the comparative perspective and on the topics of gender, race, the environment, and migration. Before coming to FAMU, Dr. Hernández Hiraldo taught at the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Michigan, and at Florida State University.
Dr. Hernández Hiraldo has published several academic works, including her book, Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience, and is currently conducting research about the merging of reafricanization, the arts, community, the environment, and sustainability in Puerto Rico. She has also published four poetic ethnographic collections and contributed to dozens of anthologies and academic and literary journals.
Currently, she is the Director of the International Forum for Literature and the Culture of Peace-Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora, an intercultural organization that facilitates the exchange of ideas, knowledge, literature, and resources between the academia, artists, and members of diverse communities around the world.