With its 155 mileperhour sustained windspeeds the nearCategory 5 Hurricane Maria brought catastrophic devastation and destruction as it diagonally crossed the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from the southeast to the northwest on September 20 2017. The official death toll estimate of 2975 lost lives means this record storm became one of the most devasting hurricanes not only for Puerto Rico but for the U.S. Many of these deaths as well as the prolonged human suffering were attributed to what was described as inadequate disaster response and slow restoration of basic services including running water electricity and the provision and distribution of food and medicine and not to the direct impact of the hurricane itself. At the same time Hurricane Maria made landfall when Puerto Rico had been confronting a severe economic crisis surging for over a decade. This crisis referred to as La Crisis Boricua was characterized by a significant loss of industry and jobs a deteriorating infrastructure record net outmigration a shrinking and rapidly aging population rising healthcare undercoverage a bankrupt government and federal legislation restricting fiscal policy decisions made by elected officials on the island. Thus Hurricane Maria exacerbated the effects of La Crisis Boricua on the socioeconomic health and demographic outcomes affecting Puerto Ricans on the island and U.S. mainland. Bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines including economics sociology demography health psychology disaster research political science education the arts and others this volume represents one of the first interdisciplinary sets of studies dedicated to analyzing the effects of Hurricane Maria on island and stateside Puerto Ricans. Specific topics cover Hurricane Mariaamprsquos impact on labor market outcomes including wages and employment by industry health implications including mental health changes in artistic expression civic engagement and disaster response and recovery. A