Iris López

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Iris López is a contemporary professor, anthropologist, sociologist, and author who focuses on feminist, Latino, and Latin American studies. She wrote Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom, an ethnography about sterilization among Puerto Rican women in New York City (2008). She earned both her Master’s and Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in 1995. López teaches sociology at the City College of New York (CUNY) and has led the Latin American and Latino Studies Program there since 2016. She began her studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College, earning an A.A., and then received a B.A. in Spanish Literature from NYU in 1975. She was chair of the CCNY Sociology Department (2013–2016) and stays involved with Women’s Studies and inclusive excellence initiatives. López is active in the American Anthropological Association and the Latina Feminist Group, which published Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (2001), co-authored with fellow members. Her work centers on feminist anthropology, Latinx identity, and Puerto Rican women’s experiences in education and reproductive rights.