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Expertise
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Work
Work
Hernández-Medina, Esther. (forthcoming). “Strengthening the Presidency: The Establishment and Evolution of the Presidential Center in the Dominican Republic 1996-2019” in Jorge Lanzaro (ed.) Presidential Centers in Latin America. The Take-off of Presidential Studies in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan Series on Public Organizations
Hernández-Medina, Esther. 2018. “El ‘derecho a una vida completa’: Notas Incompletas sobre el Movimiento Feminista Dominicano” [The ‘Right to a Complete Life:’ Incomplete Notes about the Dominican Feminist Movement]. Estudios Sociales Vol. XLI, No. 157. Septiembre-Diciembre 2018
Hernández Medina, Esther y Yildalina Tatem Brache. 2017. “Magaly Pineda, Una Mujer Adelantada a su Tiempo” [Magaly Pineda, a Woman Ahead of Her Time]. Revista Ecos, Órgano del Instituto de Historia de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Vol. XXIV, No. 14. Enero-Junio 2017
Hernández-Medina, Iluminada Esther. 2014. Urban Regime Change and Citizen Participation in Urban Policies: Conflict, Collaboration, and Corporatism in Mexico City (Doctoral dissertation). Brown University, Sociology Department
Hernández Medina, Esther. 2013. “El Funcionamiento del Alto Gobierno en República Dominicana” [Functioning of the Executive Branch Coordinating Institutions in the Dominican Republic] en Nuria Cunill Grau (coord.) Fortalecimiento del Alto Gobierno para el Diseño, Conducción y Evaluación de Políticas Públicas. Caracas: Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD)
Hernández-Medina, Esther. 2010. “Social Inclusion through Participation: The Case of the Participatory Budgeting in São Paulo.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34(3): 512-532
Hernández-Medina, Esther. 2007. “Globalizing Participation: ‘Exporting’ the Participatory Budgeting Model from Brazil to the Dominican Republic” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 51: 69-118
Itzigsohn, José; Carlos Dore Cabral; Esther Hernández Medina; Obed Vásquez. 1999. “Mapping Dominican transnationalism: narrow and broad transnational practices” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(2): 316-39, March 1999
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Education
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, Brown University
Providence, Rhode IslandMaster in Public Policy, Harvard University
Cambridge, MassachusettsMaster in Gender and Development, Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC)
Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicB.A. in Economics, Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC)
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Year Award/Honor 2017 Outstanding Alumna Award at the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC) awarded for work as a feminist scholar, activist and public sector reformer in the Dominican Republic on behalf of women and other disadvantaged groups. Social Sciences Area, INTEC, November 2005 "Alden Speare Jr. Memorial Award" to the most distinguished M.A. thesis from the Sociology Department during academic year 2004/2005. Sociology Department, Brown University, May 2002/2003 Taiwanese Government Scholarship awarded for completing the Master in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 2001/2002 Inter-American Development Bank/Government of Japan Scholarship awarded for completing the Master in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 1994/1995 Network of Women’s NGOs Scholarship awarded for the Master in Gender and Development at the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1990/1993 “Young National Talent” Award and Scholarship awarded by the Outstanding Students Program at the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic