Lorrin Thomas is Associate Professor of History and Graduate Program Director at Rutgers University–Camden, where she served as Department Chair from 2015 to 2020. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania (2002) and her B.A. from Columbia University (1993).
Her research explores ideas about rights and equality in the twentieth-century Americas, with a focus on Puerto Rican and Latino history, citizenship, race, and civil rights in the United States. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society.
Books:
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights, co-authored with Aldo Lauria Santiago (Routledge, 2018)