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Lissette Acosta

Home Country

United States

Memory and Nation-Building: Examining Race, Gender, and Dissidence in Colonial Hispaniola (1500-1800); New World Slavery and Its Forgotten Origin

Program

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country

Dominican Republic

Grant Activity Type

Lecturer, Research

Discipline

Specialization

Latin America & Caribbean History

Academic Year

Dates

September 2016 - June 2017

Flex

No

Scholar type

U.S. Scholar

Award Title

6486 | All Disciplines

Project Title

Memory and Nation-Building: Examining Race, Gender, and Dissidence in Colonial Hispaniola (1500-1800); New World Slavery and Its Forgotten Origin

Scholar Information

Grantee

Lissette Acosta

Title

Postdoctoral Fellow

Institution

City University of New York-Central Office

Department

CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

School

Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership

Host Institutions

Institution

Autonomous University of Santo Domingo