President-Elect, 2023 – 2025

Biography

Yeidy M. Rivero is a Professor of Television/Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She served as Chair of the FTVM Department for two consecutive terms and a year as Director of the Latina/o Studies Program in the Department of American Culture. Prior to joining the University of Michigan in 2009, she spent nine years at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Degrees

Ph.D., Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas at Austin. M.A., Theatre Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook. B.A., Drama Department,University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Teaching & Research Interests

Television studies, Race and media, Global media, Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies

Selected Publications & Works

Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial TV, 1950-1960. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.

Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation and Politics, co-edited with Arlene Dávila. NY: New York University Press, 2014.

Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

Other Activities & Awards

Ford Foundation, Pre-doctoral, doctoral, and post-doctoral fellowship reviewer, 2015-2022.

Fellow in the Academic Leadership Program (ALP) of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, 2021-2022.

Harold R Johnson Diversity Service Award, University of Michigan's Provost Office, 2021.

Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan's Rackham Graduate School, 2019.

Winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, 2016.

SCMS Board & Committee Service

Board of Directors, 2010-2013
Program Committee, 2012
Program Committee, 2011
Program Committee, 2010
Program Committee, 2006

Contact

Department of Film, Television, and Media
University of Michigan
6427 North Quad
105 S. State St
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1286

yrivero@umich.edu

Twitter: LaYiyacita