The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is pleased to announce the results of its call for applicants to the 2024 CUNY DSI and NSA Research fellowship program. Fellows will work over the next few months in the Dominican Archives & Library and with our Research Unit to conduct research that expands knowledge about people of Dominican ancestry. Each will receive a $10,000 grant to support their research expenses. The 2024 CUNY DSI Research & NSA Fellowship competition was made possible by the generous support from the New York City Council and the National Supermarket Association.
This year, four fellowships were awarded to the following researchers:
Andrea Constant
Andrea Constant is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research interests meet at the intersections of race and ethnicity, carcerality, and population health. Her research agenda details how institutional surveillance and immigration policies impact the lives, health, and well-being of Dominicans in the Midwest and Southern Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Constant’s research seeks to further our understanding of how the criminal punishment and immigration system’s institutions and actors function as social determinants of health for immigrant communities. As a CUNY DSI Fellow, Constant will begin quantitative and qualitative data collection for her dissertation. She will utilize and examine current DSI survey data reflecting the status of Dominican health and well-being in the United States.
Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, PhD
Dr. Molly Hamm-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at University of South Florida. She specializes in anthropology of education, comparative and international education, and race and ethnic studies, using critical and sociocultural theoretical perspectives to study educational inequality affecting Afro-Latinx and Caribbean youth.
Génesis Lara, PhD
Dr. Génesis Lara is an Assistant Professor in the department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her current book manuscript, Mobilizing Grief: Dominican Feminism and Caribbean Human Rights, centers the transnational stories of Dominican women of color in resisting state violence and forging new ideations of Black human rights during the 1960s in the Dominican Republic and United States. After completing her PhD in Caribbean and African Diaspora Studies at UC Davis, Dr. Lara was a postdoctoral associate for the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. For this research, Dr. Lara will explore the collections of early Dominican immigrants housed at CUNY DSI, such as the Juan Paulino, Normanía Maldonado, Tito Enrique Cánepa, Zunilda Fondeour, Mercedes Gonzalez, Luisa Ruíz Bienvenido Castillo, and the Carlos Alberto Martinez collections.
Imán Muñiz
Imán Muñiz Mella is a sociologist, researcher, consultant, and TV producer from the DR, primarily based in California. She is a lecturer faculty in the Sociology and Sexuality Studies Department at San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her work focuses on child marriage and sexual violence prevention and intervention in the DR. She holds a Master's degree in human sexuality from San Francisco State University, a Master's degree in Latin American studies from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's degree in social work from Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC). She currently works as a consultant for the Children and Adolescents National Council (CONANI) and the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (MINERD), collaborating in national efforts to eliminate child marriage in the country. She is also the creator and producer of the sexual education television program "SexSOS: Educación Sexual para Jóvenes". As a CUNY DSI Research fellow, she will look into the Archives to identify institutionalized practices and state involvement in child marriages during the Trujillo dictatorship.
Last Updated: 07/18/2024 14:57