Spanish Translator

Alberto E.
Morales

(he/him)

Alberto E. Morales is a writer, researcher, and educator with a diverse background. Born in Managua, Nicaragua, and raised in Southern California, he now serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University. Alberto holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology and a B.A. in French Literature from the University of California, Irvine. Before his faculty appointment in Philadelphia, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. Prior to his academic career, he taught English as a Foreign Language to migrant communities in South Los Angeles and contributed to the cultural life of Los Angeles as a museum educator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Currently, Alberto is working on a book manuscript that explores the experiences of knowledge workers in Latin America as they navigate precarity, absence, and hope.