Dr Isar Godreau
Dr Isar Godreau holds a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology. She is a researcher at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. Her research focuses on issues of “race” and cultural nationalism, racism, racial discrimination and identity in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Godreau has published on the impact of current austerity measures on public higher education in Puerto Rico after hurricane María. She is the author of Arrancando mitos de raíz: guía para la enseñanza antirracista de la herencia africana en Puerto Rico (2013) (Pullying Myths from the Root: Guide for an antiracist pedagogy about the African heritage in Puerto Rico) and Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism and US Colonialism in Puerto Rico (2015 University of Illinois Press) which received the Frank Bonilla Book Award from the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) in 2016.