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Dr. Lynne Guitar
graduated cum laude from Michigan
State University with two B.A.´s,
and cum laude from Vanderbilt University
with an M.A. and Ph.D. in history
and anthropology. She jokes that she
is a North American by birth, but
Dominican in her heart because she
has visited the Dominican Republic
three times: the first time was for
10 days, the second time for four
months, and the third time “forever.”
The third time was August of 1997,
when she came with a Fulbright Fellowship
to finish the research and writing
of her doctoral dissertation. Her
special areas of study are the Taínos
(the indigenous people of the Greater
Antilles) and Dominican popular culture,
particularly foodways, music and dance,
religion, healing, art and artisanry,
and gender-related issues.
Lynne is co-founder
and director of Student Services,
C x A--Santo Domingo, an educational
tourism company; co-founder and co-editor
of the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
website and also co-editor of their
electronic academic journal, Kacike;
she’s the on-site director for
an Internet educational program by
World Classroom called “Discovering
a New World,” which is a virtual
classroom where students learn about
Dominican archaeology, history, culture,
geography, botany and biology; she’s
the educational and cultural advisor
for the Guácara Taína
nightclub; and she’s a history
and literature teacher at The American
School of Santo Domingo.
Lynne has published
many articles in professional journals
and general-audience magazines about
the Taínos and the first century
of the Encounter Era on Hispaniola,
as well as textbook chapters and dozens
of encyclopedia entries. In her “spare
time,” Lynne is writing a trilogy
of historical novels about late fifteenth
and early sixteenth-century Hispaniola.
The first one is about the Spanish/Taíno
encounter, but it´s told from
the Taínos´ point of
view.
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