Iris Lopez

Iris Lopez is a professor in the sociology department at City College. She is also the director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program at City College and former director of the Women’s Studies Program. As an urban anthropologist she has done extensive ethnographic research on sterilization and Puerto Rican women in New York City culminating in most recent book, Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women’s Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Rutgers 2008). Dr. Lopez is currently undertaking ethnographic research on the Puerto Rican community in Hawai’i.