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Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren\u2019t an island and neither are we. So we are reaching across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we\u2019d bring on an expert about something? DM us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.\nIn this episode you\u2019ll hear about: Dr. Ginetta Candelario\u2019s path from journalism-major-hopeful to sociologist, how her family history shaped her intellectual questions, what inspired her to return to Smith after campus racism drove her out, a model for building an intentional community, editing a journal dedicated to the scholarship and voices of women of color, and a discussion of\xa0Meridians: 20th\xa0Anniversary Reader.\nOur guest is: Dr. Ginetta Candelario, who is a faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program, the Study of Women and Gender Program, and the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration at Smith College. She is the founding vice president of the National Latin@ Studies Association, and a founding executive committee member of the New England Consortium for Latina/o Studies, and was appointed by the American Sociological Association to its Committee on Professional Ethics for 2017\u201320 and to the Finance Committee for 2021-2024. Dr. Candelario is widely published, serves on editorial boards, and is a peer reviewer. Her 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, and has been the editor of\xa0Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism\xa0since July 2017.\nOur host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the co-creator and co-producer of the Academic Life podcasts. She is a historian of women and gender.\nListeners to this episode may be interested in:\n\nDr. Candelario\u2019s\xa0Ted Talk\n\n\nMeridians\u2019\xa0materials\xa0referenced in the podcast\n\nMeridians'\xa0portal for submissions\n\n\n\nCien a\xf1os de feminismos dominicanos, 1865-1965.\xa0Tomo I:\xa0El fuego detr\xe1s de las ruinas, 1865-1931.\xa0Co-edited by Ginetta Candalario, April J. Mayes, and Elizabeth Manley, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Archivo General de la Naci\xf3n, 2016.\n\n\nBlack Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops, Durham: Duke University Press, December 2007.\n\n\nSalome\xa0by Julia Alvarez\n\n\nAlmanac of the Dead\xa0by Leslie Marmon Silko\n\n\nDemocracy in Chains\xa0by Nancy McClean\n\nYouTube recording of the\xa0Meridians\u2019 20th anniversary celebration talks\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies