Denise Santiago Sanchez.

Hi! Im Denise. It's great to meet you!

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I am currently a senior at Rollins College earning my Bachelor's in Anthropology. I am of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent, as I am a child of immigrants and a first generation college student. I hold much pride in my Afro-Caribbean roots and they shape much of my work. As a former military child, I have had the privilege of living in more than 5 cities and attending 10 schools before completing my undergrad. Therefore, I have developed a strong passion for anthropological work centered around movements, rituals, memory, place, selfhood, and the sacred. In terms of methodology, I often gravitate towards cultural relativist ethnography, photo voice,  urban archeology, and structured/unstructured interviews.

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What is "my beautiful entrapment"

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My beautiful entrapment is my own personal guiding philosophy that is interwoven through most of my work. Drawing from the sociological concept of a black woman's life as a cycle of entrapment, where no matter what we do to advance as a collective or individual, there is always something in the way--wether that be institutional or affective obstacles. Thus, I make intentional efforts to produce work that better depicts and contributes to the current scholarship around Afro-Caribbean Feminism and other related topics. Because the most hated and underserved person in America, and perhaps the world, is the black woman.

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The goal of this website is to serve as a living and breathing documentation of my work thus far, as prospective graduate student in pursuit of an Anthropological Doctorate Program, upon completion of my undergraduate studies at Rollins.