Picture This (May 11, 2012)
May 11, 2012
View of Presidential Palace in Havana, Cuba which was the official residence of the presidents of the Republic from 1920 to 1960. After 1960 the building was converted into a museum. Photograph from the William González Photograph Collection.
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2012 Graduate Fellows announced
May 10, 2012
We are happy to announce the 2012 CHC Graduate Fellows, generously funded by The Goizueta Foundation and the Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection.
The Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships provide assistance to graduate students who wish to use the research resources available in the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami. The goal of these Fellowships is to engage emerging scholars with the materials available in the Cuban Heritage Collection and thus contribute to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban, hemispheric, and international studies.
For more information about fellowship opportunities to study at the Cuban Heritage Collection, click here.
Research Fellowships
Michael Bustamante
Yale University (History)
Collective Memory Struggles in Revolution, Exile, and Diaspora
Mauricio Castro
Purdue University (History)
Post-1959 Miami and the American Welfare State
Joanna Elrick
Vanderbilt University (History)
Religion, Race and Culture in Colonial Cuba, Angola, and Brazil
Arturo Matute Castro
University of Pittsburg (Hispanic Languages and Literatures)
Mariel and Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana: Cuban Literary Exile of the Last Three Decades
Marysol Quevedo
Indiana University (Musicology)
Negotiating Cubanness through Art Music: Composers in Socialist Cuba, 1959-1989
Lara Stein Pardo
University of Michigan (Anthropology)
Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Caribbean Women Artists in Miami, Florida and the Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production
Martin Tsang
Florida International University (Anthropology)
Con la mocha al cuello: Chinese influence in Afro-Cuban Religion
Pre-Prospectus Fellowships
Russell Boutelle
Vanderbilt University (English)
The Invention of Juan Placido and the Transamerican Antislavery Movement
Jesse Horst
University of Pittsburgh (History)
Housing and Slums in Havana 1930-1960
Natasha Perez
Michigan State University (College of Education)
Language, Literacy, Identity and Culture in the Cuban Diaspora
Picture This (May 4, 2012)
May 4, 2012
Havana Club Rum. Photograph from the Toy Moon LLC Photograph Collection.
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Scholar Spotlight: Rachel Hynson
April 30, 2012
"Although I will return to the CHC in the future, I am privileged to have already spent three months consulting materials at such a remarkable institution."
Rachel Hynson is a Ph.D. candidate in History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was in residence at the Cuban Heritage Collection for three months in 2011 as a Graduate Fellow. Her research is entitled “Sexing the Cuban Revolution: Gender Difference and Sexuality as Tools of Nation-Making, 1959-1975.” Rachel’s dissertation explores how the post-Revolution Cuban government employed a particularly gendered discourse to define the ideal Cuban revolutionary, and how this discourse was challenged and negotiated by everyday Cubans in order to understand the changes that occurred on the island after 1959.
While at the CHC, Rachel consulted a number of primary sources including Cuban periodicals such as Bohemia, Mujeres, Romances, and Verde Olivo. She also made use of several secondary sources, for instance, she consulted various memoirs published in the 1980s and 1990s that provided important information. “The people that work here are incredibly educated and can make suggestions about where I can go and where I can look, and not merely the staff members, also the graduate student workers,” Rachel explains while recalling an experience where another Graduate Fellow made suggestions on materials that ultimately proved another invaluable source for her research.
During a presentation at the culmination of her time at the CHC, Rachel discussed the images of Cuban women she had been analyzing, and illustrated how Cuban media sources depicted these women over the course of several years through advertisements, cartoons, letters to the editor, and articles. Based on these findings, she was able to argue that after 1959, “women were expected to give their bodies to the revolution, but not merely as laborers or ideological vessels. They were expected to project a certain image, to embody revolutionary ideals on a daily basis. Of course, this image was never static and varied according to politics and the economy.”
Following her time at CHC, Rachel made plans to continue her research in Cuba at the archive of the Federation of Cuban Women, as well as the Instituto de Historia de Cuba. Looking back on the three months she spent conducting her research at the CHC, Rachel feels that her experience exceeded her expectations: “In the end, when I write my dissertation, it would not be half of what it will be if it weren’t for the Cuban Heritage Collection.”
Learn more about Rachel Hynson’s research.
Picture This (April 27, 2012)
April 27, 2012
Máximo Gómez Monument in Havana, Cuba. Photograph from the Cuban Photograph Collection.
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Picture This (April 20, 2012)
April 20, 2012
Jockey Heriberto Martínez mounted on a race horse. Photograph from the Toy Moon LLC Photograph Collection.
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Picture This (April 13, 2012)
April 13, 2012
Fruit stand in Havana, Cuba. Photograph from the William González Photograph Collection.
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Venerated Cuban Auxiliary Bishop Agustín Román dies at 83
April 12, 2012
“Agustín Román, the beloved emeritus auxiliary bishop of Miami who was considered the spiritual leader of South Florida’s Cuban exile community, died Wednesday night of a heart attack.”
Continue reading The Miami Herald’s article »
We mourn the loss of Bishop Román and consider ourselves fortunate to have recorded an interview with him in 2009 through our Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project.
Watch the video interview with Bishop Román »
Browse through other interviews in the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project »
Cuban Identity and Diaspora: Undergraduate Scholars Symposium co-hosted by CHC & CLAS on April 20th
April 10, 2012
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Learn more about the CHC Undergraduate Scholars Program.
Picture This (April 6, 2012)
April 6, 2012
Kid Gavilán and Rafael Salas Cañizares. Photograph from the Toy Moon LLC Photograph Collection.
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