Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961
Edward Paulino is an assistant professor of history at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Paulino earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State and teaches a range of interdisciplinary courses. His research interests include: race; genocide; borders; nation-building; Latin America and the Caribbean; the African Diaspora; and New York State history.
In his latest book, Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961 (January 2016), Paulino focuses on the campaign to “Dominicanize” the Dominican border including a small and often forgotten genocide in 1937 ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo – a mass murder that saw an estimated 15,000 Haitian men, women, and children slaughtered. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York State Archives.
Professor Paulino’s talk at the Athenaeum is co-sponsored by the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at CMC and the Latin American Studies Draper Fund at Pomona College.
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