Elvira Pulitano Author & Editor

Elvira Pulitano is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where she teaches courses in Indigenous and Caribbean Studies, Critical Race Theory, Migration, and Human Rights. She is the author of Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience (2016) and editor of Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration (2012). A Fulbright scholar from Italy, she received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, specializing in Native American and postcolonial studies. She previously held teaching positions at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland.