Emma Amador

@emmaamador.bsky.social

🌳 Historian @ UConn — Book, The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Duke UP, 2025.) 🌿 Research Fellow @ UCHI (2026-27) 🍃this is my personal account, doesn’t reflect the views of my employers🍃

It was such a joy celebrating this award at the Puerto Rican Studies Association conference last week— truly a dream come true to win a Frank Bonilla Book award! 📚🇵🇷🎉

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to @marinegron.bsky.social, author of "Made in NuYoRico," and @emmaamador.bsky.social, author of "The Politics of Care Work," whose books were named co-winners of the Frank Bonilla Book Award given by the Puerto Rican Studies Association. buff.ly/1nsJU8u buff.ly/t3HO5pu

Cover of Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice by Emma Amador. The cover features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone. The photograph has been edited with bright, monochromatic tints: the woman has a pink hue, the background a turquoise one, and the phone has a yellow tint.

My new book is out by September. Robin DG Kelley says — "TROOP MOVEMENTS will profoundly change how we think about the 1940s." This week — PennPress has a 40%-off sale! [ Use code PENN-SUMMER26 ] If you may want to do an event, or a book review — do be in touch! www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

Troop Movements – Penn Press

The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar periodIn th...

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Totally blown away to read a review of book in ILR Review which calls it a "... a complex and nuanced account of the coloniality of power, achieved previsely through its intersectional approach." The deep critical analysis of my book and its engagement with social reproduction theory is fantastic!

ILR Review@ilrreview.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🆕Read Lucia Amorosi's #scuolanormale review of @emmaamador.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social new book @dukepress.bsky.social that spotlights #PuertoRican #women whose #socialwork #activism reshaped struggles for #justice. Vivid #biographies make this #history feel urgent today. doi.org/10.1177/0019...