She is also the Director of the Chancellor’s CUNY Latino Faculty Initiative. She received her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she held positions as an administrator and member of the faculty. Torres is cultural anthropologist with expertise in Caribbean, Latina/Latino, and Latin American Studies. She has conducted research in the Anglophone and Hispanic Caribbean and in the U.S. Topical Interests include: African Diaspora; Puerto Rican & Latina/Latino Diaspora; Theories of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Nationalism; Ideology and Praxis; Migration and Transnationalism; Representation; Class and Economic Development.