Ginetta E.B. Candelario

Ginetta E.B. Candelario
Smith College

In addition to being the Editor of Meridians: race, feminism, transnationalism since 2017, Candelario also has published a dozen articles and the books El negro detrás de las orejas: Identidad racial dominicana, desde los museos hasta el salón de belleza (Santo Domingo: Editora Universitaria Bonó, 2021); Cien años de feminismos dominicanos: Un colección de documentos y escrituras clave en la formación y evolución del pensamiento y el movimiento feminista en la República Dominicana, 1865-1965; Tomo I, El fuego tras la ruinas y Tomo II, Las siempre fervientes devotas (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación, 2016) with April J. Mayes (Pomona College, Claremont, CA) and Elizabeth S. Manley (Xavier University, New Orleans, LA); Black behind the Ears: Dominican Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), recipient of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLS); Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de género en la República Dominicana al inicio del tercer milenio (Santo Domingo: FLACSO & INTEC, 2005). This last book compiled papers presented at the first conference on gender studies in the Dominican Republic that Candelario organized as part of her Fulbright scholarship in 2003, and began the series of Miradas desencadenantes published since then by the CEG-INTEC. In addition to a second Fulbright in Santo Domingo (2016), she is the 2021-2022 Wilbur Marvin Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, and a 2021 NSA Fellow at the Dominican Studies Institute.