Samuel Martinez

Samuel Martinez
Samuel Martinez
Born	1959 (age 64–65)
Occupation	Cultural anthropologist
Title	Professor of Anthropology
Academic background
Alma mater	Stanford University (B.S.); Johns Hopkins University (M.A., Ph.D.);
Academic work
Institutions	University of Connecticut (1997–present)

Samuel Martinez (born 1959) is a Cuban-born American ethnologist, ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, and professor at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively on the struggle for human rights for Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic and their Dominican-born offspring. He has also done research on north–south knowledge exchange in human rights and on the rhetoric and visual culture of activism against modern slavery.