Participant Info
- First Name
- Elena Marie
- Last Name
- Rosario
- Country
- United States
- State
- CT
- elmrosario@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Michigan and Harvard University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- United States History; Public History; Public Humanities; Puerto Rican Studies; Social and Cultural History; Labor History; Urban History
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Elena Marie Rosario (she, her, ella) is a public historian from Hartford, Connecticut. Her scholarly interest in histories of migration, identity formation, and labor stems directly from her family’s stories. Rosario’s current project, titled Puerto Rican Hartford: A Public History documents the history of Puerto Rican tobacco migration, settlement, and community formation in twentieth-century Hartford, Connecticut. As a public historian and humanities scholar, she uses in-depth archival research and community-centered methodologies to produce public-facing materials, such as place-based K-12 lesson plans, that foreground the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Rosario is a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow named one of Connecticut Explored’s 20 for 20 Game Changers for her role in innovating Connecticut history. She earned an M.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Connecticut College, where she was selected as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
- Recent Publications
“Writing Puerto Rican Public History: Ethnic Studies Curriculum in Connecticut” for Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2023): 194-209.
“Laboring for the Puerto Rican Vote,” Reverb Effect, The University of Michigan Podcast, Season 4, Episode 1, May 2023.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/estados-unidos/notas/comunidad-boricua-en-connecticut-valiosas-aportaciones-que-han-pasado-desapercibidas/
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Labor, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Pedagogy, Public History, Race, Urban History
