Elena Rosario
is a public historian from Hartford, CT. Her scholarly interest in histories of migration, identity formation, and labor stems directly from her family’s stories. Rosario’s current project, titled Puerto Rican Hartford: A Public History, documents the history of Puerto Rican tobacco migration, settlement, and community formation in twentieth-century Hartford, Connecticut. As a public humanities scholar, she uses in-depth archival research and community-centered methodologies to produce public-facing materials, such as place-based K-12 lesson plans, that foreground the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the United States. She was selected as one of Connecticut Explored’s 20 for 20 Game Changers for her project’s contribution towards innovating Connecticut history. She currently is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.