Raquel Z. Rivera, Ph.D. is a writer and professor, currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, New York City. During the Fall of 2006, she will be teaching the course “From Hip Hop to Reggaeton: New Directions in Latino Youth Cultures” at Columbia University.

She is presently co-editing an anthology titled Reading Reggaeton: Historical, Aesthetic and Critical Perspectives with Deborah Pacini-Hernandez and Wayne Marshall. She is also conducting research and writing about the redefinition of “traditional” Caribbean music by young people, particularly in the case of Puerto Rican bomba and Dominican palos and salves.

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