Associate Professor of Sociology
and Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Tyler Annex 08; (413)585-3454
gcandela@email.smith.edu
Office hours: W 9:00-11:00 and by appt

B.A., Smith College (Economics and Public Policy)
Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center (Sociology)

Ginetta Candelario is Associate Professor in Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies and a member of the Study of Women and Gender Program Committee 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: Blackness in Dominican Identity
From Museums to Beauty Shops, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2007.  Her edited volume, Generizando: 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.  Previous publications include “`Black Behind the Ears’ and Up Front Too?:  Dominicans in the Black Mosaic,” Public Historian: Special Issue on Latinos in the Museum, Fall 2001 and winner of the 2002 G. Wesley Johnson Best Article Prize from the National Council of Public Historians; “Hair Race-ing: The Dominican Beauty Shop, the Body and the Self,” Meridians: Race, Feminism, Transnationalism, Vol. 1, No. 1; “On Whiteness and Other Absurdities: Preliminary Thoughts on Dominican Racial Identity in the United States.” Proceedings of the Congreso Internacional: La República Dominicana en el Umbral del Siglo 21 Pontîfica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Pontîfica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 1999; “(Re)Visiones: A Dialogue on Aids, Activism and Empowerment” with Marina Alvarez, in Ella Shohat, ed. Makeshift Dwellings: Multicultural Feminism in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. "The Latest Edition of the Welfare Queen Story: Dominican Women on Welfare in New York City" co-authored, in Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Politics and Ethnic Studies, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Spring 1996. 

She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic at FLACSO and INTEC during the spring and summer of 2003, during which she furthered her current project on feminism and anti-haitianism in the Dominican Republic.

She is the Latina/o Studies Program Track Chair of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for 2004-2007, the U.S. Co-Chair of the Gender Section for LASA 2007, and the Sociology of Culture Program Track Chair for the American Sociological Association Meeting 2006.  In addition to being a long standing member of LASA and ASA, she is a member of the American Studies Association and of the Berkshires Women’s History Conference Association.  Finally, she member of the editorial boards of various journals including: Meridians: Race, Feminism, Transnationalism, Ethnic Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities.