Dr. Ginetta E.B. Candelario is a Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latin@ Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Study of Women and Gender Program at Smith College. She is also the Editor of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, a double-blind peer-reviewed journal housed at Smith and published by Duke University Press. Meridians provides a platform for scholarship by and for women of color. She received her doctorate and masters in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and her bachelor's degree in Economics and Public Policy from Smith College.
In addition to her work at Smith, she has held various professorial and lecturing positions at el Centro de Estudios de Género (CEG), Instituto Tecnológico (INTEC) in Santo Domingo; Cornell University; la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciensias Sociales (FLASCO) in Santo Domingo; Harvard University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; La Guardia Community College, CUNY; Queensborough Community College. CUNY; Queens College, CUNY; Rutgers University; the Smith College School for Social Work; and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Candelario has been funded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation/Dominican Studies Institute, and was a Fulbright Scholar in the D.R. in both 2003 and 2016.
Dr. Candelario's research interests are primarily in Dominican history, society, and identity formation; transnational feminisms, particularly between the D.R. and the U.S.; Latina feminisms; Blackness in the Americas; beauty culture; and museum studies. She has published four books: El negro detras de la oreja: Identidad racial dominicana, desde los museos hasta el salón de belleza (Editorial Universitaria Bonó, 2021);Cien años de feminismos dominicanos, 1865-1965 (Archivo General de la Nación, 2016); Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Duke University Press, 2007), and Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de género en la República Dominicana al inicio del 3er milenio: Una convocatoria multidisciplinaria (Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and FLASCO, 2005). See Research & Writings page for more on her publications.
In addition to her work at Smith, she has held various professorial and lecturing positions at el Centro de Estudios de Género (CEG), Instituto Tecnológico (INTEC) in Santo Domingo; Cornell University; la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciensias Sociales (FLASCO) in Santo Domingo; Harvard University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; La Guardia Community College, CUNY; Queensborough Community College. CUNY; Queens College, CUNY; Rutgers University; the Smith College School for Social Work; and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Candelario has been funded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation/Dominican Studies Institute, and was a Fulbright Scholar in the D.R. in both 2003 and 2016.
Dr. Candelario's research interests are primarily in Dominican history, society, and identity formation; transnational feminisms, particularly between the D.R. and the U.S.; Latina feminisms; Blackness in the Americas; beauty culture; and museum studies. She has published four books: El negro detras de la oreja: Identidad racial dominicana, desde los museos hasta el salón de belleza (Editorial Universitaria Bonó, 2021);Cien años de feminismos dominicanos, 1865-1965 (Archivo General de la Nación, 2016); Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Duke University Press, 2007), and Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de género en la República Dominicana al inicio del 3er milenio: Una convocatoria multidisciplinaria (Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and FLASCO, 2005). See Research & Writings page for more on her publications.
Community Engagement
In addition to her work in academia, Dr. Candelario has been involved with organizing and community engagement in Holyoke, MA.
She taught classes at the Adult Learning Center at Holyoke Community College. She was also a board member at the Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice in Holyoke from 2015 to 2018 and a board member of the Enlace de Familias/Holyoke Family Network from 2008 to 2015. For this work, she was awarded the Antonia Pantoja Community Champion Award from the Latino Scholarship Association in Holyoke in 2006.
She taught classes at the Adult Learning Center at Holyoke Community College. She was also a board member at the Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice in Holyoke from 2015 to 2018 and a board member of the Enlace de Familias/Holyoke Family Network from 2008 to 2015. For this work, she was awarded the Antonia Pantoja Community Champion Award from the Latino Scholarship Association in Holyoke in 2006.