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Elizabeth Manley is a Kellogg Endowed Associate Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. She is the author of The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and Authoritarian Politics in the Dominican Republic (University Press of Florida, 2017) and co-author of Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos with Ginetta Candelario and April Mayes. She has published articles in The Americas, The Journal of Women’s History, Small Axe, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American Research. She is also a contributing editor for the Library of Congress’ Handbook of Latin American Studies and the co-chair of the Haiti-Dominican Republic section of the Latin American Studies Association. Currently, she is conducting a research project on twentieth-century tourism development across the Caribbean that focuses on the role of women and gender in the construction of the region as island “paradise.”

Recent Publications

“Of Celestinas and Saints, or, Creating the Myths of Dominican Womanhood,” Small Axe (56, July 2018)

“Developing an Economy of Sex: Intersecting Histories of Tourism, Beach Boys, and Masculinity in Hispaniola” in April Mayes and Kiran Jayaram, eds. Transnational Hispaniola: Dialogues in History, Political Economy, and Culture (Spring 2018, University Press of Florida)

“Honest Citizens and a ‘Grave Moral Threat’: Prostitution, Public Women, and Political Transition in Post-Dictatorial Dominican Republic, 1964 – 1978,” Journal of Women’s History 29:4 (Winter 2017); 133-156.

The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017)

“The Galíndez Case in the Dominican Republic,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (2017)

Cien Anos del Feminismos Dominicanos, 1930 – 1965, Tomos I y II edited collection with April Mayes and Ginetta Candelario (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Archivo General de la Nación, 2016)

“’Cream With Our Coffee’: Preservation Hall, Organized Labor, and New Orleans’ Musical Color Line, 1960 – 1970” in Thomas Adams and Steve Striffler, eds. Working in the Big Easy: The History of Politics and Labor in New Orleans             (Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana Lafayette Press, 2014)

“Intimate Violations: Women and the Ajusticiamiento of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, 1944 – 1961,” The Americas 69:1 (July 2012), 61-94.

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Country Focus

Caribbean; Dominican Republic

Expertise by Geography

Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin America

Expertise by Chronology

Modern, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Gender, Human Rights, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Women