Samiri Hernández Hiraldo

Samiri Hernández Hiraldo teaches anthropology and religion at Florida A&M University. She has conducted research and has published academic work in these areas. Currently, she researches the activism of Afro-Puerto Rican women connected to spirituality. She is the author of six poetry collections, and her poems have appeared in national and international anthologies and literary journals. Lately, she has also delved into literary anthropology, especially ethnographic poetry, linking it to fieldwork, research, teaching, and the dissemination of anthropological knowledge.