Sarah Aponte is Chief Librarian of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library at The City College of New York and Professor at The City College Libraries, teaching courses on Dominican Studies and bibliographical instruction. She founded the Dominican Library in 1994 with donations of books and other materials by the Council of Dominican Educators and is the first Dominican librarian solely dedicated to Dominican studies in the United States. She holds an M.L.S. in Library and Information Sciences from Queens College; an M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from Baruch College; a B.A. in International Studies from the City College of New York; and an A.A. in Liberal Arts from Hostos Community College. Prof. Aponte created and maintains a Dominican Studies Research Guide to provide links to useful databases, books, web sites, journal articles, and films in the interdisciplinary field of Dominican Studies.
Education
- Baruch College. M.S. Ed., Higher Education Administration – December 2004
- Queens College. M.L.S., Library & Information Science – December 1997
- The City College of New York. B.A., International Studies – June 1994
- Hostos Community College. A.A., Liberal Arts – June 1992
Books
- 2022 Aponte, Sarah. La presencia dominicana en el periódico “Las Novedades”, 1876-1918: De breve mención a propietarios en la ciudad de Nueva York. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña.
- 2015 Espaillat, Rhina P. and Sarah Aponte. Juan Pablo Duarte: The Humanist (a Bilingual Selection of his Writings / Juan Pablo Duarte: El humanista (selección bilingüe de sus escritos). Santo Domingo; New York: Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña; CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
- 2013 Aponte, Sarah and Franklin Gutiérrez. Autores dominicanos de la diáspora: apuntes bio-bibliográficos (1902-2012).
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Winner of the “José Toribio Medina Award 2014” SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials). - 1999 Aponte, Sarah. Dominican Migration to the United States 1970-1997: An Annotated Bibliography. Dominican Research Monographs. New York: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
Book Chapter
- 2021 Aponte, Sarah. “Dominican Blackness”. In Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. Ed. Ilan Stavans. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 2019 Aponte, Sarah and Nelson Santana. “The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library: Bringing the Community to the Academic Library.” In Collecting Latin America Beyond the 21st Century. Edited by Gayle Williams and Jana Krentz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Publishers, pp. 183-196. Book winner of the “2019 José Toribio Medina Award” SALALM.
- 2017 (Updated 2021) Aponte, Sarah. “Dominican Diaspora.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. Ed. Ilan Stavans. New York: Oxford University Press.
Articles/Published Conference Proceedings
- 2017 Aponte, Sarah and Anthony Stevens-Acevedo. “First Blacks in the Americas: A Unique Collection of Primary Sources on Black African Ancestry in the Dominican Republic.” In Papers of the Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Ed. Daisy Domínguez. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: SALALM, pp. 137-141.
- 2016 Domínguez, Daisy and Sarah Aponte. “Acogiendo a Comunidades Diversas: Las Bibliotecas de City College en Nueva York.” In Bibliotecas e inclusión social. Compiled by Ana Gricelda Morán Guzmán and Sergio López Ruelas. Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara, pp.17-24. (XXII Coloquio Internacional de Bibliotecarios/Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Nov. 30-Dec 2, 2015).
- 2012 Aponte, Sarah. “Dominican Migration to Europe: A Biographical Approach.” In Papers of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Edited by Pamela Graham. New Orleans, Louisiana: SALALM, 2012. 204-214.
- 2011 Aponte, Sarah. “Dominican Related Dissertations in the U.S.: an Analytical Approach (1939-2009).” Camino Real, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 21-51.
Encyclopedia Essays
- 2016 Aponte, Sarah. “Virtudes Uribe.” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight. Oxford University Press.
- 2016 Aponte, Sarah. “Alianza Dominicana”. Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements. Edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2015 Aponte, Sarah and Anthony Stevens-Acevedo. “Dominican Americans.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Edited by John Stone, R. Dennis, P. Rizova, A. Smith and X. Hou. Wiley-Blackwell.
- 2005 Aponte, Sarah. “Washington Heights.” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 2005 Aponte, Sarah and Silvio Torres-Saillant. “Dominican American Art.” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 2005 Aponte, Sarah. “Frank Moya Pons.” Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society. Edited by Ilan Stavans. CT: Grolier Publishing.
Bibliographic Contributions
Reconstructed the bibliography of two classic texts, translated for the first time in English, of two renowned Dominican authors:
- 2016 Bosch, Juan. Social Composition of the Dominican Republic. New York: Routledge.
- 2015 Franco, Franklin J. Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation. New York: Routledge.
