Email: rcintron@uic.edu
Ralph Cintrón is Professor Emeritus of English and Latin American and Latino Studies and, as well, Senior Researcher at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago. His work is ethnographic and transdisciplinary across the fields of rhetoric, philosophy, economics, socio-political theory, and, most recently, in climate sciences. He is a UIC Co-PI on a $25 million, 5-year grant (CROCUS) with Argonne National Laboratory and the United States Department of Energy. The focus of the grant is on urban climate science. He is the author of Angels’ Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday; Democracy as Fetish; joint author of an urban studies report, Puerto Ricans in Chicagoland; and co-editor of Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action. He is a former Rockefeller Foundation Fellow; an honorable mention winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing (American Anthropological Association); and a Fulbright Scholar. He is a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America.