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Former Visiting Scholar Earns Ph.D. in Public Policy
Denisse Delgado Vázquez has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The topic of her dissertation was remittance behaviors among Cuban migrants in Miami and Madrid.
Announcing the Winner of the 2024–25 José Antonio Echeverría Scholarship
The Cuban Research Institute is pleased to announce that this year's recipient is Maria Zyla, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history at FIU. She currently studies U.S.-Cuban cultural and transnational history, exploring gender, sexuality, and migration in the Havana-Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century, with a focus on music, literature, and art.
New Ph.D. in History
We're glad to share the news that Richard Denis successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in history and has been appointed a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department for the academic year 2024-25. His dissertation explores the evolving relationship between the Cuban state and key sectors of the national commercial press on the island during the late republican era (1940-1958).
"Can't Hear You"
Ana Menéndez (English / Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab) has written a moving account of her family trips to Cuba for the blog "Bridges to/from Cuba."
CRI Director Invited to Participate in French Academic Event
Dr. Jorge Duany will present a paper on recent Cuban migration at the international colloquium "The Other Caribbean," to be held at the University of Paris III (Nouvelle Sorbonne) on June 20-21, 2024.
Call for Papers | Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
ASCE is issuing a call for papers and panel proposals to be presented at its 2024 Annual Conference, to be held in Miami on October 18-20, 2024. Abstracts of papers or panel proposals should describe original work related to Cuba's economy in a broad sense, including economic policy, legal, sectoral, and social aspects of economic development.
CRI Visiting Scholar Joins "Cuban Studies" Advisory Board
Dr. Elaine Acosta González has been invited to form part of the board for five years (2024–29). Founded in 1970, "Cuban Studies" is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba.
Spring 2024 Newsletter
Learn more about the numerous public events we organized last semester, including lectures, panel discussions, book presentations, and film screenings, to promote Cuban and Cuban American Studies. We're also planning numerous activities for the upcoming months, including hosting four new Visiting Fellows for Threatened Cuban Scholars in the Humanities.
2024 Crossing Latinidades Fellowships Announced
Congratulations to FIU graduate students Noel Hernández (History) and Michele Mileusnich (Modern Languages) on being selected to attend the 2024 Summer Institute in Latino Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago! The institute brings together thirty-two second and third-year pre-dissertation doctoral students pursuing Ph.D.'s in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who plan to work on Latino Studies dissertations.
CRI Visiting Scholar Will Conduct Research on Spanish Music in Cuba and the United States
The Cuban Research Institute is pleased to host Susana de la Cruz Rodríguez between October and December 2024. A Ph.D. student in musicology at the University of Oviedo in Spain, Ms. de la Cruz Rodríguez will conduct archival research and interviews for her doctoral dissertation titled "Bagpipes and Asturian and Galician Music in Cuba: Cultural Spaces and Sound Transculturation."
