Ginetta E.B. Candelario
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063

Ginetta Candelario is Associate Professor in Sociology and Director of the Program in Latin American and Latina/o Studies at Smith College. She is also a member of the Study of Women and Gender Program Committee, the American Studies Committee, and the Five College Native American Indian Studies Certificate Program at Smith College. Her research interests include Dominican communities and identity formations, race and ethnicity in the Americas, beauty culture, Latina/o communities and identity formations, museum studies, Latin American and Latina feminisms.

Her first book, Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity From Museums to Beauty Shops was published by Duke University Press in 2007 and received the Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies in 2008. Her edited volume, Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de género en la República Dominicana al inicio del tercer milenio, a collection of recent gender and women’s studies research in the Dominican Republic, was published in April of 2005. Her current research is on Dominican feminist thought and activism, 1880-1961, which she plans to develop into a book length study.

She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the City University of New York Graduate Center, Smith College Mellon Fellowships, Five Colleges, Inc., and the Rappaport Foundation. She was the Latina/o Studies Program Track Chair and the Gender Section Co-Chair for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for 2006-2007. In addition, she is on the editorial boards of various journals including: Meridians: Race, Feminism, Transnationalism and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities.

Phone: (413) 585-3454

Building: Tyler Annex 8

E-mail: gcandela@smith.edu

Spring 2009 office hours: Fridays, 9:00-11:00am