Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco is an associate professor of Sociology. She holds a PhD in political science and sociology, as well as a JD in Law. She teaches Introduction to Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Sociology of Gender and Sexuality. She has published extensively on politics, gender, and LGBTIQ studies. Her current publications include Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians, Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change, “Transgressing Social, Gender, and Sexual Norms in Colonial Santo Domingo (1716-1719)” in Transatlantic Bondage, and Divagaciones II: An Anthology by Dominican Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women.