Lorgia García Peña

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Lorgia García Peña is an ethnic studies scholar. She is a professor at Tufts University in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora and is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and Archives of Contradiction.

Early life and education[]

García Peña grew up in the Dominican Republic until she was 12 years old, when she immigrated to the United States, joining her parents who had departed earlier for Trenton, New Jersey.[1] She finished high school at 15 and, as her parents felt she was too young to go away to college, enrolled at Rutgers University.[1] She subsequently earned a master’s degree in Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures from Rutgers and a master’s and Ph.D. in American cultures from the University of Michigan.[1]

Career[]

García Peña began teaching at the University of Georgia in 2010.[1] She taught at Harvard University from 2013 to 2021, jointly appointed in the Romance Languages and Literature department and the History and Literature program.[1] She served as assistant professor, then Roy G. Clause Associate Professor.[2] She was denied tenure in November of 2019, and though different groups repeatedly urged the university to revisit the decision,[3][4][5] the university did not.[1] The case is pending before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, as García Peña alleges it was part of a pattern of discrimination she encountered across her time at Harvard.[1]

She was appointed to a tenured position at Tufts University in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora and begins teaching in fall 2021.[1] The position is supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[6]

Works[]

García Peña is author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and Archives of Contradiction, published by Duke University Press in 2016.[7][8][9] The book won 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, the 2016 LASA Latino/a Studies Book Award, and the 2016 Isis Duarte Book Prize in Haiti and Dominican Studies.[5] Reviewing The Borders of Dominicanidad for The Latin Americanist, Sobeira Latorre said the book “offers a historically grounded, meticulously researched, and thoughtful analysis of how dominant narratives of Dominican racial and national identity developed, and the ways in which these narratives have historically excluded racialized people.”[10]

Her second book, on diasporic Blackness, is forthcoming from Duke.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Graciela, Mochkofsky (27 July 2021). "Why Lorgia García Peña Was Denied Tenure at Harvard". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Fall 2020 Franklin College Visiting Scholar Lorgia Garcia-Peña, Harvard University". Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. University of Georgia. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  3. ^ Taylor, Kate (2020-01-02). "Denying a Professor Tenure, Harvard Sparks a Debate Over Ethnic Studies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  4. ^ Fern, Deirdre (December 9, 2019). "Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Messer, Olivia (2019-12-04). "Harvard University Sparks Outrage for Denying Tenure to 'Latina Star Scholar'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  6. ^ "School of Arts and Sciences Affirms Commitment to Confront Racial Injustice". Tufts Now. 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  7. ^ VICTORIANO-MARTÍNEZ (ARTURO), RAMÓN ANT. (2017). "Review of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction, LORGIA GARCÍA-PEÑA". Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 41 (3): 671–673. ISSN 0384-8167. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  8. ^ Chetty, Raj (1 March 2019). "The borders of Dominicanidad: Race, nation, and archives of contradiction". Latino Studies. 17 (1): 131–133. doi:10.1057/s41276-018-00167-7. ISSN 1476-3443. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  9. ^ Morris, Jeffery (2019). "The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction by Lorgia García-Peña (review)". Journal of Global South Studies. 36 (1): 232–234. doi:10.1353/gss.2019.0021. ISSN 2476-1419. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  10. ^ Latorre, Sobeira (2017). "The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and Archives of Contradiction by Lorgia García-Peña (review)". The Latin Americanist. 61 (4): 607–609. ISSN 1557-203X. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

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