Abbreviated CV

Luis Javier Cintrón Gutiérrez

Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American Studies, University at Albany - State University of New York
lcintron-gutierrez@albany.edu || http://luisjaviercintrong.com || http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2666-6260

Education
Ph.D. in Latin American, Caribbean & U.S. Latino/a Studies
University at Albany - State University of New York (SUNY), 2022 (Expected)
Dissertation Proposal: Puerto Rican Narcoculture and Media Production on Mano Dura Contra el
Crimen. Committee: Alejandra Bronfman (Chair), Ilka Kressner, Carmen Serrano
M.A.C. in Media & Contemporary Culture
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, 2020
Master Monograph: La narcocultura como eco de las fisuras del sistema capitalista [Narcoculture
as a reflection of the cracks of the capitalist system.] Advisor: Aileen Estrada-Fernández
M.A. in Sociology
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2016 (With Distinction)
Master Thesis: “Que me velen para’o”: “Velorios exóticos” y desafíos a la marginalidad
puertorriqueña contemporánea [“Que me velen para’o”: Exotics Wakes, Body and Performance in
the 21st Century Puerto Rican Marginality.] Committee: Emilio Pantojas-García (Chair), Lanny
Thompson, Jaime Pérez, Edwin Crespo
B.A. in Political Science
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 2010

Teaching Experience
Visiting Adjunct Professor/Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, University at Albany - SUNY
ASPN 100 - “Elementary Spanish I" (Blended/Hybrid- Synchronous - 33% of face-to-
face class: Spring 2021)
ASPN 101 - “Elementary Spanish II" (Traditional/Enhanced: Fall 2018 to Spring 2020, &
Fully Online/Synchronous due to COVID-19: Spring 2020 to Fall 2020)
Department of Latin American, Caribbean, & U.S. Latino/a Studies, University at Albany-
SUNY
ALCS 269, ”The Caribbean: Peoples, History, Cultures”, (Fully Online/Asynchronous:
Winter 2020/2021)
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
SOC 331 - “Social Research Methods”, (Fall 2019, Course modality: Traditional/
Enhanced: Fall 2019 & Fully Online/Asynchronous due to COVID-19: Spring 2020)
SOC 100 – “Introduction to Sociology” (Traditional/Enhanced: Fall 2019)

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Instructor of Record
Department of Latin American, Caribbean, & U.S. Latino/a Studies, University at Albany-
SUNY
ALCS 100 - Culture and Power in the Americas (Traditional/Enhanced: Fall 2017 &
Spring 2018)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Latin American, Caribbean, & U.S. Latino/a Studies, University at Albany-
SUNY
ALCS 100 - Culture and Power in the Americas (Traditional/Enhanced, and Online/
Synchronous due to COVID-19)
Other teaching experience
Center for Community Engagement, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
SCO 204 - Social Research Techniques, (Spring 2011 & Spring 2012, Workshop
instructor of Social Statistics and use of InfoStat for a Service Learning Course)

Research Experience
Research Assistant (Interviewer) Spring 2021
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of
Toronto & Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
Project: EDUGESPRO

Graduate Research Assistant Spring 2016

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Universidad de
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Supervisor: Lidia Marte, Ph.D.
Project: "Food and Power in Río Piedras.”

Researcher (P.I.). 2014-2016

Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources
& the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Project: "A Socio-economic Review of Caño Tiburones
Natural Reserve at Arecibo & Barceloneta in the Northern
Puerto Rico”.

Graduate Research Assistant 2012 - 2014

Center for Social Research, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras. Supervisor: Emilio Pantojas-García, Ph.D.

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Research Assistant 2008-2010

Center for Applied Social Research, Universidad de Puerto Rico,
Mayagüez. Supervisor: Michael González-Cruz, Ph.D.
Project: “Assessment of the waterfowl hunters as key
Stakeholders of the Boquerón Wildlife Refuge.”

Research Assistant 2007-2010

Interdisciplinary Center for Coastal Studies, Universidad de Puerto
Rico, Mayagüez. Supervisor: Manuel Valdés-Pizzini, Ph.D.

Publications & Presentations

Peer Reviewed Articles
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2020. “Tepito y la Ciudad de México desde el “tercer espacio” de
Ingobernable.” Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies 4(1):142–158. DOI:
10.23870/marlas.231
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2019. “Entre “hacer historia” y “¡Qué me velen para’o!”: velorios
exóticos y marginalidad contemporánea en San Juan de Puerto Rico”. Cuadernos
Inter·c·a·mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe 15(1):41-64. DOI:10.15517/
c.a..v16i1.36498.
Books Sections, Chapters & Proceedings 
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2015. "Aspectos sociológicos sobre la narco-cultura y los ritos
funerarios en Puerto Rico: El caso de la muerte del Chacal de Llorens Torres.” Pp.
112-121. In Caribbean Without Borders: Beyond the Can(n)on's Range, edited by M. del C.
Quintero Aguiló, G.J. Jiménez Fuentes, M. Joseph Haynes, G. Mejía González, D.
Ursulin Mopsus. Newcastle upon Tyne: UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Book Reviews
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2019. “Review of the book Passages and Afterworlds:
Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean ed. by Maarit Forde and
Yanique Hume.” Caribbean Studies 47(2):164-166. doi:10.1353/crb.2019.0022.
Refereed Conference Presentations (Selected)
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2019. “#QueCuenten: Deaths, Journalism, Politics, and Memory in
Puerto Rico After Hurricane María.” Presented at the XXXVII International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2019, May, Boston, Massachusetts,
United States of America.
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2019. “[…] más allá de la frontera nos imponen la Guerra’: The
Representation of the Contemporary US – Mexico Economic and Political Relations in
Ingobernable.” Presented at the Economic Imaginaries in the Literature and Cinema
of Spain and Latin America Symposium, April 5, Lehman College - CUNY, Bronx, New
York, United States of America.

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Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2018. “Death, Marginality, Images and Performance: Contemporary

wake ceremonies in inner city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.” Presented at the XXXVI
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2018, May
24, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2017. “In quest of legitimacy inside the prison: Manifestations of a
consumption society on the walls of State Penitentiary Oso Blanco in Puerto Rico.”
Presented at the XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association - LASA 2017, April 30, Lima, Perú.
Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2016. “El que no fantasme’h esta muerto: necropolitics and
consumption society in Puerto Rico seen on the Reggaetón.” Presented at the XXXIV
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association - LASA 2016, May 2,
Manhattan, New York, United States of America.
Invited Lectures, Public Talks &
2021. Round Table participation on "Rethinking Environmental Discourses in Puerto Rico:
Colonialism, Capitalism and Contemporary Crisis / Repensando los discursos
medioambientales en Puerto Rico: Colonialismo, Capitalismo y Crisis
Contemporánea”, XXV LAILAC Annual Student Conference “Supervivencia en
Disputa”, February 19, The Graduate Center - CUNY, New York City. (Via Zoom due to
COVID-19 Pandemic).
2020. “Puerto Rican Contemporary Culture”. Invited class lecture in Cultura, modo de vida,
identidad y memoria (MSRLC4019), Professor Yollolxochitl Mancillas López,
December 1st, Universidades para el Bienestar Benito Juárez - Sede Álvaro Obregón,
México City, México. (Via Zoom due to COVID-19 Pandemic).
2020. "Hacia una narcocultura puertorriqueña y su formación de sentido en ver la muerte en
Puerto Rico”, Coloqueo, August 18, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Via Zoom
due to COVID-19 Pandemic).
2020. "Que me velen para’o: Velorios exóticos y marginalidad en Puerto Rico” [Que me velen
para’o: Exotics Wakes and Marginality in Puerto Rico], February 12, Department of
Graduate Studies, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Aguadilla, PR.
2019. “Culture, Funeral Rites and Marginality in Puerto Rico”. September 19, The Department
of Social Sciences & the College of Arts and Humanities, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Puerto Rico, Ponce, PR.
2016. “Métodos de investigación y acercamientos sociológicos para entender al Muerto Para’o
y otros velorios exóticos” [Research Technics and Sociological Approaches to achieve
a better understanding of “Muerto Para'o” and other exotic wakes], October 14,
Department of Iberian American Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo.
2016. “Que me velen para’o: Velorios exóticos y marginalidad en Puerto Rico” [Que me velen
para’o: Exotics Wakes and Marginality in Puerto Rico], October 13, Center for Applied
Social Research, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR.

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Other conference activity

2020. Commentator, “Paisaje del arte”. IV Coloquio Internacional de las Culturas del Desierto,
October 22, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. (Via
Microsoft Teams due to COVID-19 Pandemic)

Media Appearances
2020, July 24. Univisión Puerto Rico. “Es un momento que jamás olvidaré”: puertorriqueños
celebran a un año de la histórica renuncia de Ricardo Rosselló”.
2020, January 2. WPAB 550 [radio] “Temprano en la tarde”. Radio Interview on Narcoculture.
https://www.ivoox.com/freestyling-sobre-capitalismo-gore-luis-javier-cintron-audios-
mp3_rf_46087956_1.html
2019, December 22. Radio Isla 1320 “En la Tarde con Luis Herrero”. Radio Interview on
Narcoculture.
2016, October 14. Univisión. "Kerry Washington, su pelo al ‘natural’ y la reivindicación de los
rizos." [with Mónica Lugo]
2016, October 14. Indice [GFR Media/ Newsletter]. “Joven estudia el mundo de los velorios
exóticos” [“Young investigates the world of exotics wakes”].
2016, July 1st. Diálogo. "Muertos ‘paraos’: entre la academia y el morbo publicitario." 
2015, November 2. Primera Hora [GFR Media/ Newsletter]. “El espectáculo y el culto a la
muerte” [Spectacle and the cult of death”].
2015, October 3. ABC 5 [American Broadcasting Company/ WORA TV 5.2]. En Record: “La
muerte y los funerales” [“Death and funeral rites”].

Professional Affiliations
International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR
American Sociological Association - ASA
Latin American Studies Association – LASA
Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología – ALAS

Skills
Statistics: SPSS, InfoStat, Minitab, and Excel
Research: ATLAS.ti
Design Package: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Gimp
Teaching: Blackboard, Canvas, Zoom, Skype Business, Microsoft Teams

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