Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Ph.D
Tisch Hall 1029, 435 S. State Street [email protected] Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 (734) 213-4906
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 2018-present. Director, Immigrant Justice Lab. 2017-present. Associate Chair, Department of American Culture. 2018-present. Professor of History, American Culture, & Latina/o Studies. 2012-2014. Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 2008-2018. Associate Professor of History, American Culture, & Latina/o Studies. 2002-2008. Assistant Professor of History, American Culture, & Latina/o Studies.
The Immigrant Justice Lab is a collaboration among multiple academic units at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC). The IJL coordinates the training and deployment UM students to conduct research, write reports, translate materials, and build research repositories on behalf of MIRC projects including naturalization and citizenship matters and the rights of survivors of domestic violence, refugees, unaccompanied minors, and farmworker rights.
EDUCATION: Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. 2002. Ph.D. in History. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 1993. A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2019. Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850-1910. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2008. A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Accepted for publication. “Cuban Racial Politics in Nineteenth-Century New York, a Critical Digital Humanities Approach.” American Historical Review, August 15, 2019. (13,000 words).
2011. “To Abolish the Law of Castes: Merit, Manhood, and the Problem of Color in the Puerto Rico liberal movement, 1873-1898.” Social History 36, no. 3: 312-342.
2004. “Yankee Go Home . . . and Take Me with You: Imperialism and Migration in the Dominican Republic, 1961-1966.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 29, no. 57-8: 39–65.
2001. “The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York. 1891-1917.” Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 1: 3-49.
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
2018. “’Racial Democracy’ and Racial Inclusion: Hemispheric Histories,” (co-authored with Paulina Alberto) in Afro-Latin America: An Introduction, edited by Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews, 264-316. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
2015. “The Immigration Reform Act of 1965,” The Familiar Made Strange: Iconic American Texts after the Transnational Turn, edited by Brooke Blower and Mark Bradley, 125-140. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
2010. “The World of Arturo Schomburg,” in Afro-Latin@s in the United States: A Reader, edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, 70-91. Durham: Duke University Press.
2008. “Michigan,” in Latino America: State by State, edited by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, 405- 426. Oxford: Greenwood Press.
2003. “The Prehistory of the Cadenú: Dominican Identity, Social class, and the Problem of Mobility, 1965-1978,” in Immigrants in America: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Experience in a Global Era, edited by Donna Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach, 31-50. New York: Routledge.
Writing for the Profession
2013. “Latin American Studies and United States Foreign Policy.” International Institute Journal 2, no. 1: 1-5.
2010. “Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects.” (With Adrian Burgos, et. al.) The Journal of American History 97, no. 2: 424–463.
2007. “The Problems of Measuring Race and Ethnicity.” (with Paulina Alberto) Latin American Studies Association Forum 38, no. 3: 15–16.
Translations and Anthologies:
In production, Migraciones raciales: Nueva York y la política revolucionaria del caribe hispánico, translated by Alberto Arce. Ann Arbor, MI: Maize Books.
2017. “Para abolir la ley de castas: mérito, hombría y el problema del color en el movimiento liberal de Puerto Rico, 1873-92,” translated by Juan Hernández. Translating the Americas 4.
2014. “Between Santo Domingo and Washington Heights,” excerpted from A Tale of Two Cities for publication in Major Problems in Latina/o History, edited by Carmen Teresa Whalen and Omar Valerio-Jimenez, 408-14. Stamford: Cengage Learning.
2013. Historia de dos ciudades: Santo Domingo y Nueva York después de 1950, translated by Aurora Martínez. Santo Domingo: Academia de la Historia Dominicana.
2013. “Las Migraciones de Arturo Schomburg: ser antillano, negro y puertorriqueño en Nueva York. 1891-1917,” translated by Edgardo Pérez-Morales. Translating the Americas 1.
Blogs:
2015. “Growing up with Bebo: Cuban Pianist Chucho Valdés.” UMS Lobby. Posted October 19. http://umslobby.org/index.php/2015/10/growing-up-with-bebo-cuban-pianist-chucho-valdes- 17716
2014. “Buena Vista Social Club Is a Party Foul.” UMS Lobby. Posted February 17. http://www.umslobby.org/index.php/2014/02/buena-vista-social-club-is-a-party-foul-14101.
2009. “Ask About Dominicans in New York.” City Room. New York Times, March 16. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/ask-about-dominicans-in-new-york/.
Book Reviews:
2018. “Review of Dalia Antonia Muller, Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth- Century Gulf World.” American Historical Review 123, No. 2, (April): 620–621.
2016. “Review of María del Carmen Baerga, Negociaciones de sangre: dinámicas racializantes en el Puerto Rico decimonónico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 96, no. 1: 167-169.
2014. “Review of Jorge Duany, Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States,” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 88, nos. 3-4: 375-377.
2011. “Review essay: Steven Gregory, The Devil behind the Mirror by and Karen Weyland, Negociando la aldea global con un pie aquí y otro allá.” Caribbean Studies 39, no. 1: 269– 275.
2009. “Review of Miguel Cesar Rondón, The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City.” Hispanic American Historical Review 89, no. 2: 375–376.
2008. “Review Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Australasian Journal of American Studies 27, no. 1 (July 1): 126–128.
2003. “Review of Cyrus Veeser, A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America’s Rise to Global Power.” Business History Review 77, no. 4: 743–745.
2003. “Review of Jorge Duany, The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States.” Journal of American Ethnic History 23, no. 1: 128–130.
MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2020: New York Academy of History, elected member 2018. Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, University of Michigan 2013. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Alternate. 2004. Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship. 1999. SSRC International Migration Dissertation Research Fellowship.
INVITED LECTURES:
2019. Book Talks on Racial Migrations. Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, CUNY Graduate Center (May 6); University of Buffalo (Sep. 23); Princeton University (Sep. 30); Eastern Michigan University (October 24); Columbia University (October 28).
2018. “Writing a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age.” Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, August 27.
2018. “Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Transnational Histories of Race in a Digital Age” Michigan State University, March 16.
2017. “The House at 74 West Third Street.” New York University, November 13.
2017. “Writing a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age.” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan. September 8.
2016. “Democracia racial, una nueva interpretación,” with co-author Paulina Alberto. Grupo de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos, University of Buenos Aires. August 24.
2015. “Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice. September 30.
2015. “Migration and Race in 19th Century Cuban New York.” Duke University. February 28.
2014. “’You do not know, nor can you suppose, how hard it is for the man of color to live in this northern land,’” Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture. Syracuse University. October 6.
2014. “La casa en 74 West 3rd Street.” Grupo de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos, University of Buenos Aires. June 10.
2013. “Racial Migrations.” Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago. November 7.
2013. Book launch for Historia de dos Ciudades. Academia de la Historia Dominicana, Santo Domingo. October 14.
2013. Book talk on A Tale of Two Cities. Michigan State University, February 4.
2011. “La Doctrina de Martí: Cuban Racial Politics in 19th-Century New York.” Yale University. December 2.
2011. Book talk on A Tale of Two Cities. New York University, March 21.
2011. “La Doctrina de Martí: Race & Diaspora in Cuban and Puerto Rican NY: 1880-1900.” Center for Latino Studies, Northwestern University. January 28.
2010. Puerto Ricans, the Partido Revolucionario Cubano & the Comparative History of Race.” Migration Study Group, University of California at Los Angeles. April 17.
2008. Book talks on A Tale of Two Cities. Lafayette College (April 29); University of Notre Dame (April 14); University of Puerto Rico (April 3).
2008. “Puerto Ricans, the Partido Revolucionario Cubano & the Comparative History of Race.” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Columbia University. March 6.
2007. Book talk on A Tale of Two Cities. Yale University, December 9.
2005.“Travoltismo, cadenuses y cultura de consumo en los barrios,1978-90.” Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Santo Domingo. June 23.
2004. “Homeland and Neighborhood: George Washington High School and the Politics of Dominican Ethnicity in New York.” Yale University, September 29.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS:
2020. Presenter, “Puerto Rican Typographers, New York City Publishing, and the Cuban Revolutionary Struggle, 1889–1900,” CLAH/AHA Annual Conference, New York, NY, January 5.
2019. Panelist and Workshop Organizer, New Approaches to José Martí." Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, Boston, MA, May 25.
2019. Presenter, “The Harlem of the Club Las Dos Antillas: Race, Space, and Politics in Early Antillean New York.” Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami. February 14.
2018. Presenter, “Afro-Latin American Studies: The Current State of Research,” and Discussant, “Latinos and the US Urban Crises.” Latin American Studies Association Congress. Barcelona, Spain. May 23-26.
2017. Panelist, Committee on Caribbean History Plenary, Popular Ideologies of Race in the 18th- and 19th-Century Caribbean CLAH/AHA Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado, January 7.
2016. Working group for Cambridge Companion to Afro-Latin American Studies. Cartagena, Colombia, December 8-9.
2016. Panelist, Plenary session, A City of Immigrants: 1965 and its Urban Consequences. Urban History Association Annual Conference. Chicago, October 14.
2016. Presenter, “Digital Humanities, Race, and the History of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in New York.” Latin American Studies Association Congress, New York City, May 30.
2015. Presenter, “Migrating While Black: The Color Line and the Creation of a Cuban Exile Community in 19th-Century New York.” Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 28.
2015. Panelist, Committee on Caribbean History Plenary, Why Caribbean History Matters. CLAH/AHA Annual Conference, New York City. January 5.
2014. Presenter, “Negro and Antillano in New York,” and conference organizer. Migrant Metropolis Conference. University of Maryland. March 13-16.
2013. Presenter, “Schomburg en contexto: el afán de la historia en el movimiento antillano del cambio de siglo.” Jornada Arturo Schomburg, Universidad de Puerto Rico. January 24-25.
2012. Presenter, “Migration, Diaspora, and Cuban Racial Politics in 19th Century New York.” Sawyer Seminar on Borders and Belonging, Rutgers University. December 6-7.
2011. Co-organizer International Research Practicum, Hacer hablar losdDocumentos. Instituto Juan Marinello & Archivo General de la Nación, Havana, Cuba. February-March.
2011. Presenter, "To Abolish the Law of Castes." Newberry Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Newberry Library. January 28.
2010. Discussant, Puerto Rican History Workshop. Rutgers University. May 14.
2009. Panelist, Puerto Rican and American Perspectives on the Cultural Turn: A Symposium. Department of History, University of Michigan. December 3.
2009. “Author Meets Critics: A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York After 1950.” Social Science History Association Meeting, Long Beach, CA. November 15.
2008. Discussant, Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos, Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways. American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. October 7.
2007. Discussant, Thinking through the Cultural Turn: Writing Histories in an Interdisciplinary and Transnational Age, A Symposium. University of Puerto Rico, September 25-26.
2007. Presenter, “‘El público hispánico, ese público mío.’ Garlos Gardel, popular Latin Americanism, and the Spanish language entertainment industry.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Montreal. September 7.
2007. Panel Chair, Beyond the Private Sphere: The Family as a Window into 20th Century Puerto Rico. Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. May 28.
2006. Presentation, “What do we mean when we say Post-1965 Immigration? Rethinking the way we teach the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, 40 years later.” Metropolitan History Workshop, University of Michigan. February 3.
2005. Workshop presenter, “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Parallel Urban Crises in Santo Domingo and New York: 1980-1992.” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan. March 24.
2004. “School Politics in New York and the Origins of Dominican Ethnicity in the United States.” National Academy of Education Annual Meeting, Stanford, CA. October 8.
2004. Discussant, “The Empire’s New Clothes? Thinking Historically about Global Integration and Inequality.” Covering U.S. Empire: A Symposium. University of Michigan
2001. Presenter, “Cities, Migrants, and Progress: Popular Meanings of Modernity in Santo Domingo 1950-1970.” Latin American History Workshop, Princeton University.
2001. Presenter, “The Prehistory of the Cadenú . . . Class, Americanization, and Corruption in Santo Domingo, 1965-1978.” Latin American Studies Association Congress, Washington DC.
2001. Presenter, “Migrants, Hippies, Revolutionaries, Delinquents, and Pentración Cultural in Santo Domingo: 1965-1974.” SSRC International Migration Program Conference, La Jolla, CA.
2000. Presenter, “’Teachers are Pieces of Furniture,’ Student Rebellion at George Washington High School and the Politics of Dominican Identity in New York, 1968-1972.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Miami, FL.
1999. Presenter, American Places: Shanghai, Johannesburg, Santo Domingo. Modern America Workshop, Department of History, Princeton University.
1998. “The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: The Politics of Nation, Race, and Empire in San Juan, Havana, and Harlem and the Making of an Archive for the Black Atlantic, 1891-1920.” Puerto Rico 1898-1998 Conference, Harvard University.
PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INTERVIEWS:
2020. Public discussion, “The history of immigration exclusion,” Jewish Community Relations Council, Temple Emanu-El, Oak Park, MI, February 9.
2019. Public lecture, “Defining Refugees,” Michigan Refugee Assistance Program Speaker Series. Ford School of Public Policy, November 21.
2019. Public interview with Felix Contreras host of NPR’s Alt.Latino. Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, November 17.
2019. Public discussion. “Current changes in immigration policy.” La Casa, Latinx Student Organization. University of Michigan. October 17, 2019.
2019. Interview with Jaime Sánchez Jr. on Racial Migrations. New Books in Latin@ Studies Podcast, New Books Network.
2018. Public screening, presentation, and discussion, My American Girls, Ann Arbor District Library. December 6.
2018. Lecture and discussion, “How did we get here? What immigration history can tell us about the current immigration debate.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. October 25.
2018. Curator, “No Human is Alien,” an exhibition of the work of graphic artist and journalist Germán Andino, and organizer of a workshop for K-12 teachers. University of Michigan. March 19-April 6.
2016. Public interview with Peter Kornbluh, author of Back Channel to Cuba, presented by Literati Bookstore, September 12.
2016. Public screening, presentation, and discussion, Latino Americans: 500 Years Of History Ann Arbor District Library, in English, January 25 and in Spanish, January 27.
2015. Public Interview with musician Gilberto Gil at the University Museum of Art, University Musical Society and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ann Arbor. April 4.
2010. Radio Interview about “The World of Arturo Schomburg,” on Against The Grain, KPFA, San Francisco. January 10.
2010. Public Interview with musicians Luciana Souza, Cyro Batista, and Romero Lubambo at Hill Auditorium, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, MI. February 11.
2009. Public Interview with musician Gal Costa at the Clements Historical Library, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, MI. November 6.
2009. Spanish Language Television Interview about the history of Thanksgiving, Dialogo de costa a costa, HTTN TV. November 23.
2009. Spanish Language Television Interview about the inauguration of Barack Obama and the history of the presidency, Dialogo de costa a costa, HTTN TV. February 13.
TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP: Grants, workshops, and presentations: 2019. Mellon-Rackham Fellowship in Public Engagement in the Humanities. 2019. Faculty mentor, Rackham Engaged Pedagogy Initiative 2018. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-New Initiatives Grant, for Immigrant Justice Lab. 2106-2019. Faculty mentor, Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program. 2016. UMS Mellon Faculty Institute on Arts Academic Integration, May. 2015. Faculty Dialogue Institute, CRLT, May. 2015. Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant, CRLT. 2013. Third Century Initiative, Intensifying Student Learning Grant. 2011. Presenter, Provost's Seminar, "Teaching with Collections," November 7. 2011. Presenter, Provost's Seminar, "Connecting College Teaching with the Science of Learning", March 15. 2010. Discussion Facilitator, LSA Teaching Academy for New Faculty, August 25. 2010. Panelist, CRLT session on Teaching Undergraduates in the Archives, February 2. 2009. Presenter, "The Current and Future Student Researcher," Librarians in the 20th Century Learning Environment Series. 2008. Faculty Fellow, Colloquium on the Science of Teaching, CRLT. 2006. Faculty Fellow, Teaching with Technology Institute, CRLT. 2006. LSA Grant for Innovation in Instructional Technology.
Dissertation Committees, Chair:
Amanda Reid, Gerson Rosales, Alexander Stephens, Elena Rosario, Aurelis Troncoso.
2016. Adriana Chira, “Uneasy Intimacies: Race, Family, and Property in Santiago de Cuba, 1803- 1868.” (Co-chair with Rebecca Scott). 2015. Emma Amador, “Welfare is Work: Social Welfare, Migration, and Women’s Activism in Puerto Rican Communities Since 1917.” (Co-chair with Richard Turits). 2012. Christina Abreu, “Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.” 2011. Wilson Valentín, “Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City, 1976-Present.” (Co-chair with Frances Aparicio). 2010. Samuel C. Erman, “Puerto Rico and the Promise of United States Citizenship: Struggles around Status in a New Empire, 1898-1917.” (Co-chair with Rebecca Scott). 2008. Marie Cruz-Soto, “Inhabitating Isla Nena, 1514-2003: Island Narrations, Imperial Dramas and Vieques, Puerto Rico.” (Co-chair with Fernando Coronil). Dissertation Committees, Member: Grace Argo, Nicole Navarro 2018. Andrew Walker, “Strains of Unity: Emancipation, Property, and the Post-Revolutionary State in Haitian Santo Domingo, 1822-1844.” 2017. Tatiana Cruz, “Boston's Struggle in Black and Brown: Racial Politics, Community Development, and Grassroots Organizing, 1960-1985.”
2017. Marvin Chochotte, “The History of Peasants, Tonton Makouts, and the Rise and Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship in Haiti” 2017. Andrés Pletch, “Isle of Exceptions: Slavery, Law, and Counter-Revolutionary Governance in Cuba, 1825-1856.” 2015. Paul Hebert. “’A Microcosm of the General Struggle’: Black Thought and Activism in Montreal, 1960-1969.” 2014. María Pastor, “La dimensión inexacta: Two Case Studies on Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Production in Puerto Rico in the 1970s.” 2013. Grace Sanders, “La Voix des Femmes: Haitian Women's Rights, National Politics, and Black Activism in Port-au-Prince and Montreal, 1934-1986.” 2012. Aaron Cavin, “The Borders of Citizenship: The Politics of Race and Metropolitan Space in Silicon Valley.” 2012. Rachel Afi Quinn, “Aquí hay una mezcla: Dominican Women's Transnational Identities In Santo Domingo.” 2011. Mariam Colón-Pizarro “Poetic Pragmatism: The Puerto Rican Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) and the Politics of Cultural Production, 1949-1968.” 2011. Jessica Piney, “A Trans-Atlantic Encounter--Special Period Migration and La Nueva España: Geographies and Cultural Production of the Cuban Velvet Exile in Contemporary Spain.” 2011. Darin Stockdill, “Disjuncture, Design, and Disruption: Bridging the Gap Between Students' Everyday and Academic Knowledge through Historical Inquiry.” 2010. Isabella Seong-Leong Quintana, “National Borders, Neighborhood Boundaries: Gender, Space and Border Formation in Chinese and Mexican Los Angeles, 1871-1938.” 2009. Tehani Collazo, “Experiencing Transnationalism: Engaging Young-Adult Students in Academic Literacy Practices.” 2008. Lorgia García Peña, “Dominicanidad in Contra (Diction): Marginality, Migration, and the Narration of a Dominican National Identity.” 2008. Nathan Connolly, “By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of an American South Florida.” 2008. Isabel Córdova, “Transitioning: The History of Childbirth in Puerto Rico, 1948-1990s.” 2007. Juan Hernández, “Recomposing history: Violence and the Production of Knowledge of the Past in Chile's transition.” 2003. April Mayes, “Sugar's Metropolis: The Politics and Culture of Progress in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, 1870-1930.”
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE: Editorial Board, Camino Real: Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanos. Latin American Studies Association. (Chair, Latino Studies Section Articles Prize Committee, 2013). Puerto Rican Studies Association. Committee on Latin American History. African American Intellectual History Society. American Historical Association. Manuscript Reviewer for Yale University Press; Indiana University Press; Cornell University Press; Duke University Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; Journal of American History; Journal of American Ethnic History; Latin American Research Review; Canadian Journal of Latin
American and Caribbean Studies; Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Urban History.