Mellon Interns Start in July!
(English Below) 6 de julio de 2024 ¡Estimados Participantes del PRAC! La comunidad del PRAC ha crecido en los últimos dos años y ahora, gracias a la Fundación Mellon, ampliaremos … Read More
Aldo Lauria Santiago
Sofia Feliciano is the PRAC’s Manager
Sofia Feliciano Centeno now serves as the General Manager of R/PRAC. Sofia was the first archival intern we hired during the summer of 2022. She played a crucial role in … Read More
Archival Internship for Graduate Students at the Archivo General de Puerto Rico and the Colección Puertorriqueña
I am pleased to announce the continuation of the Rutgers/Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC) Summer Graduate Student Intern Program for 2024, now with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. Having successfully … Read More
PRAC Intern Andres Acosta de la Cruz Defends Master’s Thesis
PRAC Intern Andres Acosta defended his MA thesis in history from the University of Puerto Rico on June 28. The thesis is titled “Reciprocidad Antillana: Huracán San Zenón y la … Read More
R/PRAC Receives Three year, Million Dollar Grant from the Mellon Foundation/Recibe una subvención de tres años y un millón de dólares de la Fundación Mellon
26 June 2024 Contact: Aldo A. Lauria Santiago Director, Rutgers/Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration Director, Center for Latin American Studies Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey alauria@rutgers.edu http://sites.rutgers.edu/prac … Read More
PRAC Hosts Chat with AGPR Director Hilda Teresa Ayala
About forty people joined AGPR Director Hilda T. Ayala and PRAC Director Aldo Lauria Santiago for a Q&A session about the National Archive in Puerto Rico, its goals, work, conditions and challenges.
Victoria Arredondo Works on the Narratives of Migration Project
Victoria Arredondo and Iulianna Rosario have started working on digitizing narratives of Puerto Rican migration. Profs. Ismael Garcia Colon and Lauria Santiago secured a grant from Arte Publico Press’ Latino … Read More
Rutgers Graduate Student Laurian Rosa Begins AGPR Internship
Rutgers Geography Ph.D. student Laurian Rosa begins her internship at the AGPR. Funded by the PRAC Laurian will work organizing a collection of documents from Mining Commission of the Departmento … Read More
March 2024 Update: Documenting the Narratives of Puerto Rican Migration, 1945-1980
PRAC Director Aldo Lauria Santiago and Professor Ismael Garcia Colon (College of Staten Island & Graduate Center, CUNY) have been awarded a small grant for the organizing and digitizing documents … Read More
February 2024 Update
Puerto Rico Summer Graduate Intern Program 2024–Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration The Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration Summer Graduate Intern Program will be held again in 2024. This year’s dates are from … Read More