Banner image above: Dr. Lillian Guerra was a CRI visiting scholar during the summer 2014, conducting archival research for her book, Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946–1958.
The Cuban Research Institute welcomes visiting scholars working on Cuban and Cuban American topics. Scholars are chosen on the basis of their academic credentials, their research proposals, and their project's relevance to the institute's mission. Typically, CRI provides scholars with shared office space; access to a personal computer, the Internet, and library resources; assistance in establishing contacts with FIU faculty members; and general administrative support for the scholars' projects. Several researchers have received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program and other U.S. and foreign institutions.
CRI has hosted more than thirty visiting scholars since 2010:
- Dr. Elaine Acosta González, director, Cuido60: Observatorio de Envejecimiento, Cuidados y Derechos (2017–24)
- Sergio Angel, principal investigator, Cuba Program, Sergio Arboleda University, Bogotá, Colombia (2021/2022)
- Dr. Sarah Atkinson, postdoctoral fellow, Program in Italian Studies, Villanova University (2024–25)
- Jennifer Cearns, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, University College London (2017–18)
- Elix Colón, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University (2019)
- Ana-Sofia Commichau, Ph.D. candidate, Program in Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany (2013)
- Lisandra Cuesta Vasallo, M.A. student, Research Center on Architecture and Design, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Toluca (2016–17)
- Susana de la Cruz Rodríguez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Music, University of Oviedo, Spain (2024)
- Denisse Delgado Vázquez, Ph.D. student, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts, Boston (2019)
- Dr. Alison Fraunhar, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, Saint Xavier University, Chicago (2012–13)
- Myriell Fusser, Ph.D. candidate, Institute for Sociology, Philipps University-Marburg, Germany (2023–24)
- Dr. Nora Gámez Torres, independent scholar, sociology (2014)
- Dr. Marie Laure Geoffray, associate professor, Department of Political Science, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, France (2021)
- Dr. Lillian Guerra, Waldo Neikirk Professor of Cuban and Caribbean history, University of Florida (2014)
- Nelson Jaime Santana, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago, Chile (2018)
- Dr. Alexis Jardines, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, FIU (2015–16)
- Vicky Jassey, Ph.D. candidate, Program in Ethnomusicology/Performance, Cardiff University/Exeter University, United Kingdom (2017)
- Dr. Anna Kaganiec-Kamieńska, assistant professor, Institute for American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2013/2018)
- Petra Kuivala, Ph.D. student, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland (2016–17)
- Valentina La Rosa, Ph.D. student, Faculty of Foreign Language and Communication, University of Bologna, Italy (2017)
- Kimiko Nicole LeNeave, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of California, San Diego (2022)
- Jenny Macías Chaveco, Ph.D. candidate, School of Communication, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (2021)
- Dr. Consuelo Martínez Reyes, lecturer, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Australian National University (2017)
- Yarimis Méndez Pupo, Ph.D. candidate, University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Guadalajara, Mexico (2021)
- Jorge R. Piñón, director, Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program, Energy Institute, University of Texas, Austin (2010–11)
- Dr. Justo Planas Cabreja, Graduate Center, City University of New York (2021–22)
- Víctor Puertodán, president, Alfonso Camín Foundation, Valencia, Spain (2013)
- Dr. Catalina Quesada Gómez, assistant professor of Spanish American literature and culture, University of Bern, Switzerland (2014)
- Karla Elizabeth Rueda Vergara, B.A. student, International Relations, University of Guadalajara, Mexico (2014)
- Dr. Estíbaliz Santamaría Cadaval, Musicology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (2018/2022–23)
- Evelin Szarka, Ph.D. candidate in political science, Institute for Social and European Studies, University of West Hungary (2013)
- Dr. Víctor Andrés Triay, professor of history, Middlesex Community College (2016/2017)
- Dr. Trinidad L. Vicente, professor of social sciences and humanities, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain (2022)