DENNIS R. HIDALGO

2016: Dominican Studies Research Fellowship

• Project: "Puerto Rican Migration to the Dominican Republic, 1791-1930."
• Institution: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College of New York.

2015: Summer Institute Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities

• Project: "Slavery in the American Republic."
• Institutions: Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

2005: Seminar Institute Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Project: "Visions of Freedom for the Americas: Eugenio María de Hostos & José Martí in Nineteenth Century New York"
• Institution: Hostos Community College, CUNY, NY.

2004: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Consortium of Strong Minority Presence.

• Project: "Black Migration to Haiti."
• Institution: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.

2002: Summer Institute Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Project: "Hispanic Gendering of the Americas."
• Institution: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

2000: Dissertation Fellowship, Hispanic Theological Initiative.

• Project: "From North America to Hispaniola: First Free Black Emigration and Settlements in Hispaniola."
• Institution: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

2000: Jessie Ball DuPont Scholar-In-Resident Fellowship.

• Project: "From North America to Hispaniola: First Free Black Emigration and Settlements in Hispaniola."
• Institution: Sweet Briar College Honors College, Amherst, VA.

1999-2001: CMU Dissertation Fellowship.

• Project: "From North America to Hispaniola: First Free Black Emigration and Settlements in Hispaniola."
• Institution: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Latino Studies, Washington, DC.

1998: CMU Doctoral Research Fellowship.

• Project: Field Research for the Dissertation.
• Institution: Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI.

1996-2000: King, Chavez, Parks, Future Faculty Fellowship.

• Project: Graduate Studies.
• Institution: Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI.

Academic Books 

• Searching for an American Dream: The Runaway Free Blacks Who Left for Hayti. The University of West Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica, forthcoming Fall 2023.
• La primera inmigración de negros libertos norteamericanos y su establecimiento en la Española (1824-1826). Academia Dominicana de la Historia, Santo Domingo, DR, April 2016.

Academic Journal

• “Ciguayos and Chorchas,” TeoBiblica. Forthcoming, Summer 2023.
• “The Evolution of History and the Informal Empire: La Decena Trágica in the British Press,” Estudios Mexicanos/ Mexican Studies 23 (2007): 317–354.
• “To Get Rich for Our Homeland: The Company of Scotland and the Colonization of the Darién,” Colonial Latin American Research Review 10:3 (2001): 311-350.
• “Debate sobre estudios postcoloniales y subalternos” (with H-LatAm). Revista Fronteras de la Historia Volumen 6 (2001): 163- 223.
• “Charles Sumner and the Annexation of the Dominican Republic,” Itinerario 21:2 (1997): 51-66.

References (representative sample)

• “Joseph Saint-Rémy,” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. 2016
• “Western Anticolonialism” (with Thomas Benjamin). The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450. Macmillan Reference, 2006.

Book Reviews (representative sample)

• Xabier Lamikiz, Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Boydell & Brewer Inc, 2010), Colonial Latin American Historical Review, 2010.
• Ulbe A. Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. R. Knight, eds., Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and. Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940, Itinerario, 2009.
• Eugenio Matibag, Haitian Dominican Counterpoint (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The Hispanic American Historical Review 2007.

Academic Presentations (representative sample)

• “Black Haven, Heritage, and Home: Workshop on African American Emigration and Legacy in Hispaniola.” Panelist. Dominican Studies Association Conference, CUNY Hostos Community College, NY. December, 2, 2022.
• “The Northern Routes of Transnational Hispaniola.” Presenter. Haitian Studies Association. Auberge Villa Cana, Cap Haitien, Haiti, on November 12, 2016.
• “New Perspectives on the Haitian Emigration.” Organizer and Presenter. Caribbean Studies Association. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 8, 2016.
• “La transición del Haití Español al Haití integrado, 1820-1824.” Presenter. International Symposium, Center for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University, Prague, September 4, 2015.

Invited Media (representative sample)  

• “History of Papal Transitions.” Panelist. Dialogos de Costa a Costa, (HITN). Portions in Youtube.

 Scholarship 

• 2016- Present, Editor of the Haitian and Dominican Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies.
• 2001- Present, Ex-Officio General Committee, Conference of Latin American History.
• 2001- 2014, Book Review Editor, H-LatAm.
• 2000- 2014, Online Editor, H-LatAm.

Institutional

• 2011-2012, Vice-Chair of the Hispanic Caucus, Virginia Tech.
• 2009-2010, Committee Member, History Department Research Committee, Virginia Tech.
• 2006-2008, Committee Member, Adelphi Athlete Scholar Student Award Committee.
• 2003- 2004, Faculty Senate and Council Member, Adelphi University.
• 2001-2004, History Club Faculty Advisor, Adelphi University.

Membership

• Adventist Theological Society (since 2022).
• ALARA Interdisciplinary Research Conference of The Afro-Latin/American Research Association (since 2014).
• ASWAD Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (since 2013).
• Caribbean Studies Association (since 2007).
• Latin American Studies Association (since 2000).
• The Conference of Latin American History (since 1998).
• American Historical Association (since 1997).