Tess M Kulstad‐gonzález
Biographic Data
| ID | 4280455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tess M Kulstad‐gonzález |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tess M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kulstad‐gonzález |
| SIGNATURE | GONZÁLEZ T M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0553-0575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Child Fosterage and Access to Education in a Rural Community of the Dominican Republic
Ethnographic research conducted in 2004 and 2025 on child fosterage practices, educational access, and child wellbeing in a rural community in the Dominican Republic is presented. Parents in rural areas give up their children to relatives and non-relatives in cities in arrangements that require that receiving families provide food, clothing, care and schooling. In exchange, children perform chores in the home. The Dominican government and child a…
Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
This article examines how disasters and epidemics affect childrearing practices. Specifically, it looks at how the 2010 earthquake and cholera epidemic in Haiti affected transnational child circulation practices along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. Foster children and orphans were prominent in international humanitarian aid efforts. Our findings from ethnographic research conducted on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border from 2004-2010 show …
Debating Decolonization in the Caribbean: Assessment and Polyvocal Response to Island Anthropologies Workshop (March 18–20, 2019)
This article presents a summary of and response to a conference on anthropological research held between March 18 and 20, 2019, on Hispaniola, the island where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located. In the spirit of world anthropologies and the decolonization of knowledge that structured the event, we offer this review and assessment based in a collaboration effort involving one Dominican woman, one Dominican American woman, one Haitian Am…
Transborder Disasters and Vulnerability: The Case of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
This paper examines how disasters unfold in transborder contexts. Using ethnographic research collected in the Haitian-Dominican border town of Comendador, Elías Piña after the 2010 earthquake, this paper reveals how transborder social relations distribute disaster damage beyond the bounded and static frameworks that characterized post-disaster discourse. It also exposes the limitations of utilizing geopolitical boundaries to frame hazards and di…
Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
This article examines how disasters and epidemics affect childrearing practices. Specifically, it looks at how the 2010 earthquake and cholera epidemic in Haiti affected transnational child circulation practices along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. Foster children and orphans were prominent in international humanitarian aid efforts. Our findings from ethnographic research conducted on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border from 2004-2010 show …
Debating Decolonization in the Caribbean: Assessment and Polyvocal Response to Island Anthropologies Workshop (March 18–20, 2019)
This article presents a summary of and response to a conference on anthropological research held between March 18 and 20, 2019, on Hispaniola, the island where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located. In the spirit of world anthropologies and the decolonization of knowledge that structured the event, we offer this review and assessment based in a collaboration effort involving one Dominican woman, one Dominican American woman, one Haitian Am…
Transborder Disasters and Vulnerability: The Case of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
This paper examines how disasters unfold in transborder contexts. Using ethnographic research collected in the Haitian-Dominican border town of Comendador, Elías Piña after the 2010 earthquake, this paper reveals how transborder social relations distribute disaster damage beyond the bounded and static frameworks that characterized post-disaster discourse. It also exposes the limitations of utilizing geopolitical boundaries to frame hazards and di…
Debating Decolonization in the Caribbean: Assessment and Polyvocal Response to Island Anthropologies Workshop (March 18–20, 2019)
This article presents a summary of and response to a conference on anthropological research held between March 18 and 20, 2019, on Hispaniola, the island where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located. In the spirit of world anthropologies and the decolonization of knowledge that structured the event, we offer this review and assessment based in a collaboration effort involving one Dominican woman, one Dominican American woman, one Haitian Am…
Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
This article examines how disasters and epidemics affect childrearing practices. Specifically, it looks at how the 2010 earthquake and cholera epidemic in Haiti affected transnational child circulation practices along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. Foster children and orphans were prominent in international humanitarian aid efforts. Our findings from ethnographic research conducted on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border from 2004-2010 show …
Child Fosterage and Access to Education in a Rural Community of the Dominican Republic
Ethnographic research conducted in 2004 and 2025 on child fosterage practices, educational access, and child wellbeing in a rural community in the Dominican Republic is presented. Parents in rural areas give up their children to relatives and non-relatives in cities in arrangements that require that receiving families provide food, clothing, care and schooling. In exchange, children perform chores in the home. The Dominican government and child a…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)