Dr. Hilda Lloréns is a cultural anthropologist, and is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, Anthropology, and Marine Affairs at The University of Rhode Island. During the academic year F2025-S2026, Lloréns is the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at The Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.

Her research, writing, and teaching are focused on race, gender, ecology and environment, and culture and power in the Americas. Dr. Lloréns has written about these topics in academic journals, books, as well as in popular readership online and print magazines. Her anthropological and environmental humanities research is centrally concerned with critiquing structural inequalities and dismantling taken-for-granted notions of power. She is committed to anti-racist, decolonial, and inclusive thought, research, and pedagogy.

Currently, she lives with her family in Rhode Island, which is the traditional land of the Narragansett, Wampanoag, and Niantic peoples. Lloréns was born on the Taíno island of Borikén, today known as Puerto Rico. Like many of her ancestors and family members, Lloréns is a dedicated gardener who loves spending time in nature and the outdoors. She identifies as an Afro-Boricua diasporic woman.