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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Coordinates: 40.82000°N 73.94966°W. The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) is an interdisciplinary research unit of the City University of New York devoted to the study of Dominicans in the United States and other parts of the world, including the Dominican Republic. The institute is housed at The ...
Born. La Romana, Dominican Republic. Ramona Hernandez, community leader, sociologist and historian, is Professor of Sociology at City College of New York and the director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. She is the author of various scholarly works about Dominican migration, worker mobility, and the restructuring of the world economy.
Part of CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is the nation's only university-based research center devoted to "the history of the Dominican Republic and people of Dominican descent in the United States and across the wider Dominican diaspora." [139]
Daisy Cocco De Filippis. Daisy Cocco DeFilippis (born 25 February 1949) is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve as President of a college of the City University of New York.
Stevens-Acevedo, Anthony; Weterings, Tom; and Francés, Leonor Alvarez, "Juan Rodriguez and the Beginnings of New York City" (2013). CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. (full-text) Feiden, Douglas. "Who was the first non-Native American settler in Manhattan? Dominican immigrant Juan Rodriguez in 1613", New York Daily News, October 5, 2012
The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies (IIAS): Located at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York, the IIAS is a research unit that supports scholars and students studying Irish and Irish American history, culture, and society. They offer public events, distance education courses, and publications. [25]
Recent studies from the CUNY Dominican studies Institute identified 5,000 Dominican nationals who were processed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. [ 6 ] During the 1930s and 40s, the flow of Dominicans to the United States fluctuated after Rafael Trujillo , who rose to power in 1930, imposed heavy restrictions on the outward migration ...
Dominican emigration to the United States continued throughout the centuries. Recent research from the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute has documented some 5,000 Dominican emigrants who were processed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. [74]