{"id":83,"date":"2024-10-21T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:50:22","slug":"editorial-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/about-us\/editorial-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Editor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ginetta E. B. Candelario ’90<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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In addition to being a professor of sociology, Ginetta Candelario is a faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Latina\/o Studies Program (LALS), the Study of Women and Gender Program (SWG), the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration (CESC), and she also served on the advisory group for the Gloria Steinem & Wilma Mankiller School for Organizers at Smith College. She has also been the editor of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism<\/em><\/a> since July 2017. She has directed the LALS Program several times, most recently from 2011 to 2014, and is the founding vice president of the National Latin@ Studies Association (LSA). She is a founding executive committee member of the New England Consortium for Latina\/o Studies (NECLS), she was appointed by the American Sociological Association to its Committee on Professional Ethics for 2017\u201320 and to the Finance Committee for 2021-2024.  In addition, she has served as the Gender Section co-chair, the Latina\/o Studies Program track chair, the Latino Studies Section co-chair and most recently on the Executive Council for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More About Ginetta E.B. Candelario<\/summary>\n

Candelario\u2019s research interests include Dominican history and society, with a focus on national identity formation and women\u2019s history; Blackness in the Americas; Latin American, Caribbean and Latina feminisms; Latina\/o communities (particularly Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican); U.S. beauty culture; and museum studies. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic twice, in 2003 and 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her current research is on Dominican feminist thought and activism, 1880\u20131961, which she is developing into a book-length study, tentatively titled \u201cVoices Echoing Beyond the Seas: Dominican Feminisms, from Transatlantic to Transnational (1882\u20131942).\u201d She recently published Cien A\u00f1os de feminismos dominicanos<\/em><\/a>, 1861\u20131961: Una colecci\u00f3n de documentos y escrituras claves en la formaci\u00f3n y evoluci\u00f3n del pensamiento y el movimiento feminista en la Rep\u00fablica Dominciana, 1865\u20131965, (Santo Domingo, RD: Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n, 2016) <\/em>with April Mayes (Pomona College) and Elizabeth Manley (Xavier University). Cien a\u00f1os<\/em> is a 1,555-page primary documents collection organized in two volumes, Tomo I: El fuego tras las ruinas, 1865\u20131931<\/em> and Tomo II: Las siempre fervientes devotas, 1931\u20131965<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first book, Black behind the ears:<\/em><\/a> Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops<\/em>, was published by Duke University Press in 2007 and received the 2009 Best Book Award from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association and the 2008 Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies. The Spanish translation of this book, El negro detras de las orejas: Identidad racial dominicana, desde los museos hasta los salones de belleza<\/em>, is forthcoming from the Editora Universitaria of the Instituto Superior Pedro Bon\u00f3, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her 2005 edited volume, Miradas desencadenantes<\/a>: Los estudios de g\u00e9nero en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana al inicio del tercer milenio<\/em>, was the first published collection of gender and women\u2019s studies research in the Dominican Republic and spurred a biennial publication series by the Center for Gender Studies (CEG) at the Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candelario\u2019s work has also appeared in interdisciplinary journals such as Latino Studies<\/em>, West Indian Guide<\/em>, Small Axe<\/em>, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism<\/em>, Phoebe<\/em>, and in Latina\/o studies anthologies, including Keywords in Latino Studies, Oxford Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law and Social Movements, The Afro-Latino Reader, the Dominican Republic Reader <\/em>and A Companion to Latino Studies<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has served on the editorial boards of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities<\/em>, and has written published and unpublished peer reviews for Gender and Society<\/em>, Caribbean Studies<\/em>, Callaloo, West Indian Review<\/em>, Americas Quarterly<\/em>, American Journal of Sociology<\/em>, The Black Scholar<\/em>, Latino Studies<\/em>, American Ethnologist, Ethnic Studies, Social Problems,<\/em> as well as for many university presses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has been teaching community-based learning and research courses on \u201cThe Sociology of Hispanic Caribbean Communities in the U.S.\u201d in collaboration with a dozen Holyoke, Massachusetts, community-based organizations and nonprofits for more than a decade, for which she has received various awards. These include the Antonia Pantoja Community Champion Award from the Latino Scholarship Fund in 2006 and the Five College Community-Based Learning faculty member of the year in 2008. In October 2012 she was selected by Governor Deval Patrick to give the keynote address for the opening ceremonies of Hispanic Heritage Month in Massachusetts. She has also served on the executive board of Enlace de Familias and the Carlos Vega Social Justice Fund, both in Holyoke, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Meridians <\/em>editor, Ginetta E. B. Candelario, visit her website: https:\/\/www.ginettacandelario.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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Leanna Oen<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Leanna Oen began working as Administrative Manager of the Editorial Office as of July 2025. Leanna spent over a decade working in education administration, most recently with Student Achievement Partners and Pearson VUE. In addition to being a Georgetown University certified Project Management Professional who also has an M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts and a B.A. in English from the University of Denver, Leanna is also a woman of color visual artist and creative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eliana Mercedes<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Eliana Mercedes has returned to Meridians as an interim editorial coordinator. Eliana is a Ph.D. student of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Grounded in a decolonial Black feminist perspective, her dissertation research focuses on the judicial presence of enslaved Black Dominican women in the archives from the 16th to the 18th century. Formerly the Editorial Assistant from 2023 to 2024, Eliana has continued to support the journal as she works on her dissertation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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