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Dennis R. Hidalgo <dennisrhidalgo@gmail.com> Virginia Tech Areas of Specialization: Fields Atlantic World, Latin America, and the Caribbean; Black diaspora, transnational and comparative history; conceptualizing the history of migration, emancipation, and diasporic community-building within the framework of the African experience in the Americas. Current Research: Contributions to the scholarship on the slave trade, imperial expansions, and comparative studies on runaways and free people of color, that satisfies questions about resistances and alternative modernities. *The Little Chapel Against the Empire: The Black Samaná enclave *Enduring Inequalities: Intellectual History of the Caribbean. *The “Sailaways”: Atlantic Runaways and Haiti. *The Global History of Diversity. *Recent Publications Books *Searching for an American Dream: The Runaway Free Blacks Who Left for Hayti. Forthcoming—University of Alabama Press, 2015. *De Norte América a la Española: La Primera Inmigración de Negros Libertos y Asentamientos en la Española [From North America to Hispaniola: First Free Black Emigration and Settlements in Hispaniola] Academia Dominicana de la Historia, 2014. Articles *“The Evolution of History and the Informal Empire: La Decena Trágica in the British Press,” Estudios Mexicanos/ Mexican Studies 23: 2 (2007): 317–354. *“To Get Rich for Our Homeland: The Company of Scotland and the Colonization of the Darién,” Colonial Latin American Research Review 10: 3 (2001): 311-350. *“Charles Sumner and the Annexation of the Dominican Republic,” Itinerario 21: 2 (1997): 51-66. |
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| Address: | History Department 430 Major Williams Hall (0117) Blacksburg, VA 24060 United States |
| Primary Phone: | (540) 231-8370 |
| Secondary Phone: | (763) 257-7023 |
| Fax Number: | (540) 231- 8724 |
| Web Page: | http://dennishidalgo.blogspot.com |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-LatAm List Editor for H-LatAm Former Review Editor for H-LatAm Reviewer for H-LatAm Reviewer for H-Review |
| Reviews: | untitled untitled untitled Dominicans within US Hegemony A Religious Caribbean |
| Interests: | African American History / Studies African History / Studies American History / Studies Atlantic History / Studies Black History / Studies Chicana/o History / Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies Cultural History / Studies Digital Humanities Ethnic History / Studies Immigration History / Studies Intellectual History Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies U.S. - Mexico Borderlands World History / Studies |
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Bio: I have been teaching at Virginia Tech since fall 2008. Prior to coming to Blacksburg, I taught at Adelphi University for seven years. My Ph.D. (2003) is in Atlantic World History from the Joint Doctoral Program of Central Michigan University and the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. My mentors were, Thomas Benjamin, B.R. Tom Tomlinson, Timothy Hall, Carol Green, and Luis Martinez-Fernandez. |
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