César J. Ayala

I am comparative historical sociologist with an interest in colonialism and a regional focus on the Caribbean.

CURRENT POSITION

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

DEGREES

Ph. D., Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton.

M.A., Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton.

A.B., History, Princeton University.

BOOKS 

César J. Ayala and Laird Bergad. Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy And Society, 1899-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January, 2020.

César J. Ayala and José BolívarBattleship Vieques: Puerto Rico From World War II to the Korean WarPrinceton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2011.

César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe. Puerto Rico en el siglo norteamericano: su historia desde 1898. [translated by Aurora Lauzardo] San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2011.

César Ayala and Rafael Bernabe. Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 

César Ayala. American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

SELECTED ARTICLES 

Ayala, César J. and Joel S. Herrera. “The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism.” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2024): 1–27, doi:10.1017/ S001041752400015X

César J. Ayala and Laird Bergad. “Rural Puerto Rico during the Early Twentieth Century Reconsidered: Land and Society, 1899-1915.” Latin American Research Review (37)2 (2002): 65-99. 

César J. Ayala. “Social and Economic Aspects of Sugar Production in Cuba, 1880-1930.” Latin American Research Review 30(1) (1995): 95-124.

RESEARCH

Currently working on racial inequality within Puerto Rico from a comparative-historial perspective.

I have a collaborative project with Rick Baldoz of Brown University,  “The Bordering of America: Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico after the War of 1898.”