Sarah Bruno

Sarah Bruno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Her roles include the Diasporas Solidarity Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (2023) and prior fellowships at Rice University, Duke University, and the Franklin Humanities Institute. She specializes in ethnography, performance, and diaspora studies with a focus on Afro-Puerto Rican cultural forms like bomba. Her research bridges digitality, public anthropology, and Black Puerto Rican femme experiences.

Her work emphasizes writing about resilience and healing in Puerto Rican diasporic contexts. She co-leads Taller Entre Aguas, a lab exploring Black Puerto Rican digital archives. Awards include the Vera Green Prize and ACLS fellowships.

Key projects include Black Rican Dexterity, a manuscript analyzing bomba as both genre and methodology. Media contributions include a 2024 Washington Post article on reggaeton's global rise. Grants and fellowships highlight her interdisciplinary impact across cultural anthropology and humanities research.