Jorge Matos Valldejuli
JMATOS@hostos.cuny.edu
Jorge Matos Valldejuli is an Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at Hostos Community College at The City University of New York (CUNY). He specializes in reference service and also provides support to the Accessibility Resource Center serving disabled students on campus. A former recipient of disability services within CUNY, his past experiences in Special Education as well as personal struggles with emotional health have influenced his interests in (not within) Disability Studies. Specifically, the intersections between race, gender and class within the field. But his work in the library field has also been crucial to his thinking on race and disabilities.
Formerly serving as reference librarian at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives at Hunter College, exposed him to historical materials linking Africana Studies and Latin American & Latin@ Studies. As such, his concerns lie in addressing the silences and neglect of disabled people within both fields. His current research project looks at the disregarded topic of race historically at the infamous mental institution, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, NY. He holds a BA in Political Science from Hunter College-CUNY, an MLS from Queens College-CUNY and an MA in Modern European & Latin American History from The Graduate Center-CUNY. In addition, he’s a member of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, the Latina/o Studies Association, the Library Association of CUNY and the Association of College & Research Libraries. He is also involved with likeminded faculty in the CUNY Disability Scholars network.
JMATOS@hostos.cuny.edu
Jorge Matos Valldejuli is an Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at Hostos Community College at The City University of New York (CUNY). He specializes in reference service and also provides support to the Accessibility Resource Center serving disabled students on campus. A former recipient of disability services within CUNY, his past experiences in Special Education as well as personal struggles with emotional health have influenced his interests in (not within) Disability Studies. Specifically, the intersections between race, gender and class within the field. But his work in the library field has also been crucial to his thinking on race and disabilities.
Formerly serving as reference librarian at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives at Hunter College, exposed him to historical materials linking Africana Studies and Latin American & Latin@ Studies. As such, his concerns lie in addressing the silences and neglect of disabled people within both fields. His current research project looks at the disregarded topic of race historically at the infamous mental institution, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, NY. He holds a BA in Political Science from Hunter College-CUNY, an MLS from Queens College-CUNY and an MA in Modern European & Latin American History from The Graduate Center-CUNY. In addition, he’s a member of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, the Latina/o Studies Association, the Library Association of CUNY and the Association of College & Research Libraries. He is also involved with likeminded faculty in the CUNY Disability Scholars network.