Eve Hayes De Kalaf
Training Fellow in History & the Humanities

Institute & SAS Roles
Eve joined the Institute of Historical Research in 2022 after completing a competitive Early Career Fellowship at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS) and working briefly as a research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS), University of London. She is currently Training Fellow in History & the Humanities, supporting the School of Advanced Study's national mission to promote Research Training and facilitate the provision of Short Courses in the fields of History and related disciplines. Eve's role involves working with academic leads to develop the School’s short course portfolio, facilitating cross-Institute/departmental collaboration and helping to launch new courses and seasonal schools. She is also a member of the University of London Research Ethics Committee.
Research Interests
Eve holds a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages, University of Nottingham (2005); a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Development, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)/Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo (2010); an MA in Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London (2011) and a PhD in Spanish & Latin American Studies, University of Aberdeen (2018). She is currently taking applications for PhD research in the following areas:
- Spanish and Francophone Caribbean history, including Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Haiti
- Colonial expansionism and foreign intervention in the Americas
- Race formation, identity and belonging in the Americas
Her work examines the historical and colonial origins of modern-day identity-based digital development 'solutions' within and beyond the international development sector - including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - which aim to provide all people, everywhere with a legal and, increasingly, digital identity. Her critically acclaimed book 'Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner', published with a Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican American author Junot Díaz, focuses specifically on access to citizenship across Latin America and the Caribbean examining how states can manufacture, block or deny access to citizens - including the migrant-descended - to their documentation. This includes the growing influence of international organisations such as the World Bank over facilitating the en masse introduction of digital identification systems. Her recent work on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context’ included extensive empirical research across Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago as well as the design and creation of an online digital oral history archive examining the historical origins of this major controversy.
You can find out more about Eve's publications and research interests here.
Publications and Podcasts
Books
Hayes de Kalaf, E. Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner. (2023) Anthem Series in Citizenship and National Identities with Foreword by Junot Díaz. (Paperback). Available online via Cambridge University Press, CORE series in Law and Human Rights.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner. (2021) Anthem Series in Citizenship and National Identities. (Hardback).
Reviews of Book
Childers, T. ‘Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner, by Eve Hayes de Kalaf’. (2023) New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 97 (3-4), pp. 418-419.
Hunter, Wendy ‘Eve Hayes de Kalaf: Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner,’ (2023) in Journal of Latin American Studies 54 (4), pp. 738-740.
Petrozziello, Allison ‘Eve Hayes de Kalaf: Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner,’ (2021) in The Statelessness & Citizenship Review 3 (2) pp. 366-371.
Journal Articles
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Reframing the Windrush Scandal as an International Statelessness Crisis’ (2025) Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 6(2) pp. 179-196.
Steinrücken, T. & Jaenichen, S. 'Towards the conformity of infrastructure policy with European laws: The case of government aid for Ryanair.’ (2004) Translation from German: Hayes, E. Intereconomics 39, pp. 97-102.
Book Chapters
Hayes de Kalaf, E. 'Digital Citizenship and Identity' (2025) in Pitman, Thea et al (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. 'Dominican Republic: Its Social Policy and Its Untackled Social Problems' (2025) in Cruz-Martínez, Gibrán (ed.). Edward Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘A New Expression of Dominicanidad: The Dominican ID Card, Technology and Race’ (2023) in Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco and Ernesto Sagás (eds). Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change. London: Routledge.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. & Vaughn, L. ‘Chocolate, Children and the Curriculum: Child Exploitation and the Dominican Cocoa Industry,’ (2022) in Stacey N.J. Blackman (eds). Equitable Education for Marginalized Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Florida: Taylor and Francis.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Making Foreign: Legal Identity, Social Policy and the Contours of Belonging in the Contemporary Dominican Republic,’ (2019) in Gibrán Cruz-Martínez (eds). Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America. London: Routledge.
Book Reviews
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Christina C. Davidson, Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation’ (2025) Journal of Latin American Studies.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond’ (2023) Journal of Latin American Studies, 55(1) pp. 186-187.
Media Articles
Hayes de Kalaf, E. 'What price inclusion when academic conferences remain child-free zones?' (2024) London: Times Higher Education.
Hayes de Kalaf. E. ‘Are Academia and Motherhood Incompatible?’ (2024) London: Times Higher Education Special Feature.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘COST Action Blog: A Legal Identity for All?’ (2023) European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Anger as Home Secretary ditches key review recommendations, failing Windrush scandal survivors and campaigners’ (2023) History and Policy.
Cox, Juanita; Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘At tipping point: New report signals limited drive within the Home Office properly to address the Windrush Scandal’ (2022) History and Policy.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Bagaimana negara-negara menggunakan identitas digital untuk meminggirkan kelompok rentan di seluruh dunia’ (2021) The Conversation Indonesia.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘How some countries are using digital ID to exclude vulnerable people around the world’ (2021) The Conversation,
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Digital identity, rights and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean: who are we including and who is being left behind?’ (2021) Latin American Diaries.
Hayes de Kalaf. E. ‘Researching Race, Registrations and Documentation in Latin America and the Caribbean’ (2020) Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, University of Liverpool.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Cocoa in the Dominican Republic: A Shifting Panorama’ (2019) Department of Politics, University of Liverpool.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Dominican Republic has taken citizenship from up to 200,000 and is getting away with it’ (2015) The Conversation.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘How a group of Dominicans were stripped of their nationality and now face expulsion to Haiti’ (2015) The Conversation.
Industry and Government Reports
Hayes de Kalaf, E. & Fernandes, K. ‘Digital Identity: Emerging Trends, Debates and Controversies’ (2023) London: Women in Identity.
‘Unwanted Gifts: A Concise History of Harming Haiti’ (eds) in Haiti Briefing 81 (2016). London: Haiti Support Group.
‘An Electoral Farce: But who is laughing?’ (eds) in Haiti Briefing 80 (2016). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Tourism in Haiti: New Pirates of the Caribbean’ in Haiti Briefing 79 (2015). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf. E. ‘Le tourisme en Haïti. Les nouveaux pirates des Caraïbes’ in Haiti Briefing 79 (2015). London: Haiti Support Group.
‘Duvalier Departs but Martelly’s Duvalierism Marches On: Who Needs Elections?’ (eds) Caribbean’ in Haiti Briefing 78 (2014). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf. E. ‘Undermining accountability in the New Gold Rush: The Miners Next Door’ in Haiti Briefing 77 (2014). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Une nouvelle ruée vers l’or sans retenue. Les mineurs d’à côté’ in Haiti Briefing 77 (2014). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf. E. ‘Stateless in the Caribbean’ in Haiti Briefing 76 (2014). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Apatride aux Caraïbes’ in Haiti Briefing 76 (2014). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Apátridas en el Caribe’ in Haiti Briefing 76 (2014). London: Haiti Support Group.
Hayes de Kalaf, E. ‘Electricidad y equidad en la República Dominicana: Una perspectiva del desarrollo humano’ (2010) Santo Domingo: United Nations Development Program.
PhD Thesis
Hayes de Kalaf, E. Making Foreign: Legal Identity, Social Policy and the Contours of Belonging in the Contemporary Dominican Republic (2018), University of Aberdeen.
Podcasts
‘Precarity in British Higher Education’ (2023) Academic Aunties Podcast with Professor Ethel Tungohan, York University (Canada).
Nèg Mawon Scholar Series #26. (2022) A Conversation with Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf.
Between the Lines (2022) with Dr Tony Roberts. Institute of Development Studies.
‘Talking Legal Identity, Race and Belonging with Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf.’ (2021) Women in Identity.
Book Launch (2021) Chair: David Howard, Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford. Discussants: Professor Junot Díaz, MIT and Raj Chetty, Associate Professor at St. John’s University.
Pre-book Launch: 'Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic'. (2021) UCL Institute of the Americas.
Wider academic work
Eve is winner of the David Nicholls Memorial Trust Award (2016), the Latin American Studies Association Guy Alexandre Prize (2018) and the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Early Career Fellowship (2021), Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London. She is a former board member of the Society for Latin American Studies (2019-2023), an affiliate of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative, Overseas Development Institute (2022-), and Secretary of the Haiti Support Group.
In collaboration with the Society for Caribbean Studies, Eve convenes the popular CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series. This online series conceives of the Caribbean in its broadest possible sense; cross-cutting varying historical, political, sociocultural, linguistic, transnational and decolonial contexts. Through the active promotion of intellectual engagement, knowledge exchange and collaboration, we welcome the participation of postgraduate students, early career researchers, writers and scholars who wish to share their interdisciplinary, comparative and integrated research on the region. You can sign up for upcoming seminars here.
In addition to her scholarly work, Eve is an active campaigner against precarity and casualisation in higher education. She is founding member of the British Academy Early Career Network which, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, is piloting an ECR membership scheme across the humanities and social sciences. Eve is a proud single mum to her daughter Leila who regularly accompanies her to work events and conferences.
Funded Fellowships
- Short-term scientific mission (STSM) to the University of Amsterdam, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA21120 (2023)
- Early Career Fellow, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London (2020-2021)
- Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (2017-2018)
- Isabella Middleton Scholarship Fund, School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen (2016)
- Principal's Excellence Fund, University of Aberdeen (2015)
- Comparative Statecraft PhD Studentship Award, Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen (2014-2018)
- UNHCR Fellowship to participate on Statelessness Course and present at The First Global Forum on Statelessness, Tilburg University (2014)
Prizes and Honours
- Keynote Speaker, History of Identity Documentation in European Nations (HIDDEN), European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Conference (2023)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London (2021-2022)
- Best Student Who Tutors Nomination, Edinburgh University Students' Association (2019)
- Guy Alexandre Prize for Best Paper, Latin American Studies Association (2018)
- Student Travel Fund, Latin American Studies Association (2017)
- David Nicholls Memorial Trust Award, David Nicholls Memorial Trust (2016)
- Overseas Conference Grant, Society for Latin American Studies (2016)
- Postgraduate Travel Bursary, Society for Latin American Studies (2016)
