Yeidy M. Rivero

Yeidy M. Rivero's research centers on television history, media and globalization, and race and ethnic representations in media. She is the author of Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Duke University Press, 2005), Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 (Duke University Press, 2015), and co-editor (with Arlene Dávila) of Contemporary Latino Media: Production, Circulation, Politics (New York University Press, 2015). Rivero’s Broadcasting Modernity was the recipient of the 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award. Her essays have been published in film and media studies academic journals such as the International Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Global Media and Communication, Television and New Media, and Feminist Media Studies. Her current book project, tentatively titled The Original Miami Sound Machine: Cuban Exiles, the Cold War, and the Emergence of Miami as a Media Capital, examines propaganda-oriented entertainment radio and commercial radio shows produced in Miami and targeted to Latin Americans and U.S. Spanish-language audiences during the 1960s.

In 2021, Rivero was awarded the University of Michigan’s Harold R Johnson Diversity Service Award, for her dedication to issues of diversity and equity in her service and teaching. She was elected as President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in 2023.

• Faculty Affiliate: Department of American Culture (AC), Latina/o Studies (LS)
• Faculty: Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM)

Awards 

• Winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, 2016.
• LSA Michigan Humanities Award (Fall 2012), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2011
  
• Visiting Resident Scholar, Annenberg School or Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2009
• Trustee’s Teaching Award, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2008

Field(s) of Study 

• Television studies
• Race and media
• Global media
• Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies