RESEARCH
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Current Research Projects, 2006-present
List of Research Projects, 2002-2005

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute produces and sponsors pioneering research projects concerning Dominicans in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere in the diaspora. Among its most notable publications is the study, Dominican New Yorkers: A Socioeconomic Profile. This study, published in 1990 and 1995 in cooperation with the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first academic effort to provide a statistical account of the status of Dominicans living in New York. The study relies on U.S. Census data from 1980 and 1990 and was updated in 1997 after the release of new census data the previous year.

In addition, the Institute´s research unit advocates for the production and dissemination of practical and reliable knowledge to advance the well-being and prosperity of the Dominican people in the United States. Because of this emphasis, CUNY DSI’s scholarship has received extensive media attention and the Institute has earned a reputation as the most prestigious think tank in the United States devoted to Dominican Studies. Often, research sponsored by the CUNY DSI generates headlines in major U.S. newspapers, both in English and Spanish, in addition to receiving considerable media coverage in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In 1998, CUNY DSI received recognition as a bona fide Latino research center, earning membership in the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), a highly respected national consortium of sixteen university-based Latino research centers with headquarters at the University of Notre Dame.