I hold a BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I was a research fellow through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (2023–2025), participated in the Digital Humanities Scholars in Residence program at UPR Caribe Digital (2024–2025), and attended the History Summer Institute at Columbia University in 2025. I have presented both nationally and internationally in symposia and conferences and have multiple peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and published transcriptions. My research interests focus on the intellectual and conceptual history of the Caribbean in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on understanding the conditions of possibility for conceptual change without revolution or independence. I have also worked on violence and memory of socialism, revolution, and independence in Puerto Rico.
Education
- B.A in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Field
- Latin American & Caribbean History
Selected Publications
Articles:
- 2026. Laboy Vázquez, Enrique. “Figures That Look Towards the Future: Prognosis and Temporality of the Martyr, Antonia Martínez Lagares as a Revolutionary Symbol.” Revista [in]genios 12, n.º 2 (mayo 2026): 1–17.https://www.ingeniosupr.com/vol-122/2026/5/11/figures-that-look-towards-the-future-prognosis-and-temporality-of-the-martyr-antonia-martnez-lagares-as-a-revolutionary-symbol
- 2025. Laboy-Vázquez, Enrique, Michael Berríos Santana, Sara González, Guillermo A. Arias Lattke, Marcelo Luzzi and Carlos Pabón Ortega. 2025. “Conversatorio: Ilusión y ruinas: imaginarios de izquierda en Puerto Rico desde los sesenta.” Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica, n.º 10. Transcript of roundtable.
Book Reviews:
- 2026. “The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico, by Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. Oficio. Revista de Historia e Interdisciplina, no. 23 (July–December 2026). ISSN print: 2448-4717; ISSN electronic: 2594-2115.
– 2025. “Del estudio de la producción de conocimiento y la historia intelectual. Acerca del libro Ilusión y ruinas: imaginarios de izquierda en Puerto Rico desde la década de los sesenta, del historiador Carlos Pabón Ortega / Do estudo da produção de conhecimento e da história intelectual. Sobre o livro Ilusão e Ruínas: imaginários de esquerda em Porto Rico desde a década de sessenta, do historiador Carlos Pabón Ortega / From the study of knowledge production and intellectual history. About the book Illusion and Ruins: Left-wing Imaginaries in Puerto Rico since the 1960s by historian Carlos Pabón Ortega.” REALIS: Revista de Estudos Anti-Utilitaristas e Pós-Coloniais 15, n.º 1 (2025): e268782. https://doi.org/10.51359/2179-7501.2025.268782. - 2025. “Lugares, espacios y poéticas de las memorias colectivas”, Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica 10 (2025): 133-138.
Publication in Digital Humanities
- 2025. Digital Humanities Research Project: “Voces Decoloniales: Testimonios Femeninos de la Resistencia Viequense”. Digital Humanities Scholars in Residence, Colectivo Caribe Digital. https://www.ahvpr.org/archivo-virtual/colecciones/colección-voces-decoloniales https://sites.google.com/ahvpr.org/coleccion-voces-decoloniales/inicio?authuser=7
Selected Awards
- Highest Academic Distinction Award – Department of History, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
- Best Undergraduate Research Performance Award – Department of History, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
- Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation Award
- Dr. Luis Manuel Díaz Soler Award – Dean’s Award, the highest academic distinction granted by the Faculty of Humanities for excellence across disciplines.
Professional Affiliations
- Iberconceptos, red de investigación en historia conceptual del mundo iberoamericano — Grupo temporalidad: experiencias de tiempo en Iberoamérica (siglos XVIII-XXI) (Iberconceptos, Research Network on the Conceptual History of the Ibero-American World, Group on Temporality: Experiences of Time in Ibero-America 18th-21st Centuries).