4月J. 梅耶斯 focuses her research on 多米尼加共和国 and teaches courses in Colonial Latin American history, 非裔拉丁美洲的历史, 妇女和性别研究, 和非洲研究. A graduate of 皇冠体育大学, 梅耶斯 was awarded a 托马斯J. Watson Fellowship she used to examine Protestant women's social justice movements in Mexico, 多米尼加共和国, 危地马拉和厄瓜多尔. Afterwards, she attended the 密歇根大学 at Ann Arbor where she earned a Ph.D. 历史(2003), with an emphasis in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, 性别, 美洲的种族和种族, comparative post-emancipation studies and anthro/history. 在密歇根大学的时候, 梅耶斯 received the Dean's Mellon Award and a Rockefeller Grant to pursue research at the 多米尼加研究所 at City College (CUNY) in New York City. 在皇冠体育学院任职期间, 梅耶斯 received a Fulbright Research-Teaching Fellowship (2009-2010) for research in 多米尼加共和国 and raised over $30,000 from the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy to support major scholarly initiatives in 多米尼加共和国, including the first Transnational Hispaniola Conference and the symposium, Intercambiando Historias: Género y Política en la República Dominicana.
梅斯是这本书的作者， The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and National Identity in 多米尼加共和国 (University Press of Florida) and has published various articles in women's and 性别 history: "Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women's Activism in 多米尼加共和国, 1880s-1940s," 性别 & 历史; "Tolerating Sex: Prostitution, 性别, and Governance in 多米尼加共和国, 1880s-1924," Health and Medicine in the Caribbean: Historical Perspectives; and with Stephanie Román, " 'A Patriarchal Right of Passage': An Exploration of 性别ed Migration Histories and the Erasure of Women," Al-Raida, Journal of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World. She is currently finishing a two-volume collection of archival materials related to the history of Dominican Feminism, Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos, 1861-1965的研究，并与. Ginetta Candelario (Smith College) and Prof. Elizabeth Manley (Xavier University). 她目前的项目是一本教科书， Women, Feminism, and Politics in Latin America, under consideration at Rutgers University Press.
In addition to her publications, 梅耶斯 is a an active leader in Dominican studies. As co-chair of the 海地-多米尼加共和国 section of the Latin American Studies Association, 梅耶斯, 与教授合作. Kiran Jayaram, increased section membership and the section's visibility through social media. She has reviewed numerous articles for publication in 性别 & 历史, 公共艺术对话, 妇女历史杂志, The Americas, Journal of Women’s 历史, Iberoamericana, 黑人学者, 拉丁美洲视角, 新西印度群岛指南, 拉丁美洲研究手册, 杜克大学出版社, 罗格斯大学出版社, 阿拉巴马大学出版社, 以及佛罗里达大学出版社. 梅耶斯 is one of the co-founders of the Transnational Hispaniola collective, an intellectual initiative that serves to promote social scientific research in 海地 and in 多米尼加共和国 as well as cross-national dialogue and intellectual exchange.
