Augustin Lao-Montes University of Massachusets, Amherst, USA

Agustin Lao-Montes has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York–Binghamton. He is a  Professor of Sociology & Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. His fields of specialty include world-historical sociology and globalization, political sociology (especially social movements and the sociology of state and nationalism), social identities and social inequalities, sociology of race and ethnicity, urban sociology/community-university partnerships, African Diaspora and Latino Studies, sociology of culture and cultural studies, and contemporary theory and postcolonial critique. He has published numerous articles on decolonial theory and is the author of Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York and Contrapunteos diaspóricos: Cartografías políticas de Nuestra Afroamérica.