Dr. Ramona Hernández, Ph.D
Director at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
Dr. Ramona Hernández, Ph.D. holds the positions of Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York, and Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in the Department of Sociology.
Dr. Hernández is a member of the Editorial Board of Latinos/as in the Americas; Latino/a Sociology; Latinos: Exploring Diversity and Change; Latino Studies Journal; and Camino Real: Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas. She is a Trustee of the Sociological Initiative Foundation and the Instituto Global de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales in the Dominican Republic, a member of the board of Directors of the Dominican Day Parade, and a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board for the Center for Women’s History at the New York Historical Society. Dr. Hernández has lectured at numerous universities, including Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, the Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlin in Germany, and the Sorbonne in France, among others.
Renowned sociologist and public intellectual in the United States, Dr. Hernández has authored pioneering texts about the mobility of workers from Latin America and the Caribbean, the socioeconomic conditions of Dominicans outside of the Dominican Republic, particularly in the United States, and the restructuring of the world economy and its effects on working class people. Dr. Hernández is the editor of the book series Classic Knowledge in Dominican Studies (published by Routledge press), the first on Dominican studies in the United States. Dr. Hernández is also the author of The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States (published by Columbia University Press), which in 2003 won the Choice’s “Outstanding Academic Title” for advancing the field of labor and migration studies.
Currently, Dr. Hernández is writing a book about the Dominican immigrants who came through the famous port of Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924 under contract with Columbia University Press.
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