Rafael is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia’s
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. He is from San Juan,
Puerto Rico where he worked as a public-school Social Studies
teacher for 7 years and completed an M.A. in History at the
Centre for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
His research interests include history education, critical
pedagogy, coloniality, decolonizing pedagogy, the politics of
recognition, textbooks, historical memory, and
commemoration/monuments. His upcoming publications include
Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentricism: The portrayal of Taíno
religious beliefs in social studies and history textbooks in
Puerto Rico and (De)colonizing critiques: Critical pedagogy,
currere, and the limits of the colonial mentality which will be
published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Curriculum
Theorizing. Rafael is also a decolonial activist whose most
recent endeavor, the (De)colonial Memory Project, is a digital
humanities initiative that maps the coloniality of
commemorations in Puerto Rico and beyond.

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