Dr. Raquel Otheguy, Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College, SUNY, discusses the importance of education as a contested site of oppression and liberation in colonial Cuba in her new book, Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
Dr. Frances Peace Sullivan, Associate Professor of History at Berklee College of Music, discusses the construction of international solidarity in a diverse company-built landscape populated by Afro-Caribbean migrant workers in her recently published book, Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns.
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Professor Michael Bustamante, Bacardí Chair of Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, discusses a decade of changes in geopolitical relationships between Cuba and the United States with Dr. Lillian Guerra.
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William (Bill) Messina, Research & Development Coordinator, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida, discusses his experience as an Agricultural Economist and co-founder of the Cuban Studies Program at the University of Florida.
Dr. Anasa Hicks, Timothy Gannon Associate Professor of Caribbean History at Florida State University, discusses her book Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution, exploring racial harmony and the experience of Afro-Cubans working in domestic service.
Dr. Jennifer Lambe, Associate Professor of History at Brown University, discusses her latest book, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba.
Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente, the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, discusses his time as the director and editor-in-chief of the Cuban Studies Journal and the state of Cuban historical studies.
Prolific author Elizabeth Mirabal discusses her career and work in this first-ever Spanish edition of Conversatorio Cubano.
In this two-part interview, Atlantic historian Richard Denis, Ph.D. Candidate in History at Florida International University discusses the importance of journalism to Cuban history.
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Dr. Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, discusses his latest co-edited book, Cuba and Puerto Rico : Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture with Dr. Lillian Guerra.
Sterling Professor of Hispanic & Comparative Literature at Yale University, Roberto González Echevarría, discusses his new memoir, life’s work as a literary critic, and deep ties to Cuba.
Professor Michael Bustamante, Bacardí Chair of Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, discusses his pathbreaking book on the politics, violence, and culture wars that marked the emergence of Cuba’s exile and island identities, Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.
Legendary editor of the Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman discusses his latest book, Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba, published in 2022.
Legendary political scientist Dr. María de los Angeles Torres discusses her most current work on Cuba’s long military intervention in the Angolan War (1976-1989) and reflects on her decades of experience and research in Cuba.
Dr. Devyn Spence Benson, a historian of twentieth-century antiracist movements across the Americas and the Caribbean, focuses on the history of Black Cuba as well as the political polemics of her scholarship.
A graduate of the University of Florida (Class of 2014), Ashley Mayor is an associate curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
A University of Florida graduate and pioneer of Cuban Studies, Dr. Lisandro Pérez founded the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University in 1991.
In his interview with the University of Florida’s Dr. Lillian Guerra, Dr. Jorge Duany, Director of Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute, discusses the current Cuban refugee crisis.
Dr. Carmelo Mesa-Lago is one of the world’s leading economists and a key founder of Cuban studies as a field.