His research and teaching interests are in rhetorical studies, ethnography, urban theory, social theory, and transnationalism and immigration. He is a former member of the Executive Board of the Rhetoric Society of America and is associated with the International Rhetoric Culture Project, which brings together anthropologists and rhetoricians. His book, Angels’ Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday (Beacon Press, 1998) won honourable mention for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the American Anthropological Association. Cintron is currently co-editing Power, Rhetoric, and Political Culture: The Texture of Political Life for Bergan Press. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and in 2007-2008 was a Fulbright Scholar on the political science faculty at the University of Prishtina in Prishtina, Kosovo.