Jorell Meléndez-Badillo is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. He collaborated on Debí Tirar Más Fotos, the sixth solo studio album of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, writing the notes for the historical slides that accompany each track of the album.