Amanda J. Guzmán is an anthropological archaeologist with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. Guzmán is also the co-director of Trinity's Center for Caribbean Studies.

With a record of fellowships awarded by the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Guzmán has a demonstrated background handling and interpreting object and archival material across varied collection-holding cultural institutions.

She supports undergraduate anthropological training beyond the classroom through academic year research assistantships and regular participation in the Summer Research Program as well as the Public Humanities Collaborative. Recent summer research has culminated in a 2024 blog co-authored with a team of anthropology majors for the Council for Museum Anthropology entitled, "Material Storytelling: Student Reflections on Object-Based Research."

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Public Humanities Collaborative Projects: 
2025    From Archive to Interface: Narrating Hartford Environmental Histories.