Dr. Jesse Hoffnung Garskof

Biography

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is a professor in the Department of History at Harvard University and the Director of Graduate Studies. His research focuses on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, and immigration and asylum law. He has published significant works including 'Tale Cities: Santo Domingo New York 1950' which examines the interconnected histories of working-class neighborhoods in New York and Santo Domingo, and 'Racial Migrations: New York Revolutionary Politics Spanish Caribbean' that explores the origins of Afro-Latinx communities in the United States. Hoffnung-Garskof has also co-edited the book 'Voices Race: Black Newspapers Latin America, 1870-1960'. His contributions to the field have been recognized with various awards, including the Kenneth Jackson Prize from the Urban History Association and the Theodore Saloutos Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He previously taught for twenty years at the University of Michigan, where he directed the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and founded the Immigrant Justice Lab, a collaborative public scholarship initiative focused on immigration and asylum law.

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