Rima Brusi

Rima Brusi is a Puerto Rican writer, educator, researcher and advocate. She is currently a professor at Northern Arizona University. Previously, she served as Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY-Lehman College, Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, and as an applied anthropologist and writer at The Education Trust in Washington D.C. Her work draws on ethnography, mixed-methods research, and literary nonfiction to explore colonialism, political economy, and everyday life. She is the author of four books, including Fantasmas (PEN-Puerto Rico Award, 2020) and the forthcoming Phantoms (Arte Público Press, 2026).