Cristina Pérez Jiménez (she/her/ella) is an Associate Professor of English at Manhattan College, where she specializes in U.S. Latinx and Caribbean cultural studies with a focus on race and ethnicity, migration and diaspora studies, urban studies, especially NYC, and histories of the left and ethnic social movements. She is the co-editor of a bilingual scholarly edition of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s Manhattan Tropics/Trópico en Manhattan (Arte Público, 2019) and her research has appeared in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Latino Studies, Post45, Small Axe, CENTRO Journal, among other venues. Dr. Pérez Jiménez is currently completing a book called Here to Stay: The Making of Latinx New York, which explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latinx cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s, and developing a public humanities, digital project entitled “The Latino Catskills.”