Ginetta Candelario, Ph.D.

Ginetta Candelario, Ph.D. is a Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Smith College and an affiliate scholar at the Gender Studies Center of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the Dominican Republic. She is the author of the award-winning book Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops, whose Spanish translation is set to reach shelves soon. Prof. Candelario’s latest research project, Voices Echoing Beyond the Seas: Dominican Feminism, from Trans-Atlantic to Transnational, 1882-1942, documents how Dominican women’s feminisms harmonized with what early-20th century Dominican feminist Abigaíl Mejía called a “worldwide concert” of feminist voices throughout the Americas. Analyzing Dominican feminists’ responses to the Trujillo regime, which included the pursuit of the creation of a sovereign state, a generalized social welfare ethos, and a democratic administrative apparatus, Prof. Candelario will illustrate how personal linkages between Dominican feminists and feminists across the Americas simultaneously transcended and solidified organizational and social barriers constructed around class, race and nationhood of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.