Past Graduate Fellows
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2023-2024 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellows
Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Katie Coldiron
Florida International University | History
Cuban Studies in Miami
Daniel Delgado
University of Southern California | History
Race and Annexation: Evaluating Cuba's Myth of Racelessness from Narciso López to the PIC Massacre
Maytte Hernández Lorenzo
University of Miami | Modern Languages and Literatures
Cultural policies and cultural citizenship: articulating new narratives in Cuban theater
Ryan Metz
Ohio State University | History
Relaxations and Revolutions: A History of Cuban Neocolonial Resistance through the Built Landscapes of Havana Tourism, 1930s-1970s
Elyse Veloria
Duke University | Cultural Anthropology
The Sweetness of Sazón: Cuban Sugar and Identity in Popular Culture
Anna Wenzel
University of Maryland | History
Cuban Exile Political Violence, 1959-1980
Research Fellows
Chasitie Brown
University of Texas at Austin | Art History
The Dormant Scar: Embodying Blackness in the Queloides Exhibition Series in Cuba, the United States, and Spain
Damian Deamici
University of Connecticut | Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Markets, Youth, and Counterculture in Argentina and Cuba (1961-1969)
Lidia Hernández
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) | Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC)
Negotiating “Cuban Color:” Cultural Citizenship, Networks and Technologies of Cuban Visual Arts And Literature in New York City During 1930s and 1940s
Lisa Krause
University of Florida | History
Between Solidarity and Surveillance: Cuban-East German Transnational Relations, ca. 1959 – 1990
Xu Peng
University of Connecticut | Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
From History to the Future: Chineseness in Contemporary Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican Literatures and Cultures
Miriam Pensack
New York University | History
Registers of Sovereignty: The Struggle for State and Self in Cold War Latin America
2022-2023 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellows
Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Helio Alves
University of Florida | History
¿La Revolución Marcha Bien? Finding the reality in Cuba’s official truths narrative, 1970s-1990s
Deborah de la Torre
Indiana University, Bloomington | Department of Floklore and Ethnomusicology
Mujeres, Movimiento y Música: memories within the Cuban heritage Collection
Reynaldo Lastre
University of Connecticut | Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Nuclear Technology and Cultural Production in Cuba
Arisbel López Andraca
University of Texas at Austin | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Cuban religions of African antecedents and recent religious revival process (1985 to the present). Critical notes on the profusion of religious content in contemporary Cuban literature and visual arts.
Maria de L. Mariño
Temple University | Art History Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Malditas/Damned: Independent curatorial practice and women curators in Cuba
Carlos Velazco
University of Virginia | Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Cubans who Tell an American Tale
Research Fellows
Richard Denis
Florida International University | History
Cuban Print Journalists and the Politics of the Press, 1940-1971
Justin Frankeny
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Department of Music
Composing Displacement: Experiences of Cuban Art Music Composers in an Era of Uncertainty, 1959–1980
Lindsay Griffiths
Princeton University | English & African American Studies
Reciprocal Translation: Lydia Cabrera and the Unstable Text
Steven Rodríguez
Vanderbilt University | History
Imagining Hemispheric Solidarity: The United States, Cuba, and Pan-American International Education
Lauren Romaguera
Tulane University | Latin American Studies
Ruptures and Sutures: Ancestral Memory Inheritance and the Second-Generation as the Storyteller
Alexander Werner
City University of New York, Graduate Center | Anthropology
Property, Personhood, and the Avant-Garde in Havana’s ‘Post-Fidel’ Artworld
2021-2022 Award Cycle Skipped
2020-2021 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Elisa Alfonso
University of Texas at Austin | Ethno/Musicology
Re-Sounding History: Soundscapes and Traumatic Memories in Pedro Panes
Natalie Catasus
Emory University | Comparative Literature
Porous Borders, Watery Graves: Forgetting the Balseros in Cuban American Literature and Visual Culture
Richard Denis
Florida International University | History
Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: Cuban Print Media and the Politics of the Press, 1902-1969
Monica B. Ocasio Vega
University of Texas at Austin | Spanish & Portuguese
Imagining Sabor: Flavor, Race, Gender, and Sensible Life in Contemporary Cuba
Patricia Ortega-Miranda
University of Maryland, College Park | Art History & Archeology
Figures of Inscryption: The Visual Politics of Afrocuban Aesthetics
Amalia Pérez Martín
University of California, Merced | Sociology
Urgency Courts: Discursive Contentions, Revolutionary Identity, and Legal Repression in Cuba, 1952-1958
Graduate Research Fellows
Andy Alfonso
Princeton University | Spanish and Portuguese
Shadow Cadavers: Cheap Labor, Archival Praxes, and Queer Necropolitics in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution
Angelica Marquéz-Osuna
Harvard University | History of Science
Transmodern Bees in the Tropics: Honey Production and Beekeeping on the Mexico-Caribbean Frontier
Mariel Martínez-Alvarez
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Romance Languages & Literatures
Common Acts: Disarticulating Hegemonic Power through Cuban and Cuban-American Theater and Performance
Daniel Pedreira
Florida International University | Politics and International Relations
Executive Branch Institutionalization and Personalization under Cuba’s 1940 Constitution
Elaine Penagos
Emory University | Graduate Division of Religion – Laney Graduate School
Cuban Writers and Diasporic Griots: Santería Poetics and the Transformation of the Patakis
Tara Phillips
University of California, Berkeley | Comparative Literature
Anti-imperial Aesthetics, Agriculture, and Foodways in the U.S. and Cuba, 1890s-1960s
Alexander Stephens
University of Michigan | History
Excludable: Cubans, Migration, & Carceral States, 1971-1996
2019-2020 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Miranda García
University of Michigan | Anthropology
Independent Advertising in Cuba: A Lens on Economic and Social Change
Brandon Mancilla
Harvard University | History
The Construction of the "Afro-Cuban" Revolutionary Subject: The Intertwined Histories of Afro-Cuban Politics and Anthropology, 1940-1970
Fernando Norat
Brown University | History
Cuban-Soviet Relations
David Roldán Eugenio
Rutgers University | Spanish & Portuguese
New Rhythms in the Streets of Havana: Spanish Gypsy Immigrants, between Minority and Elite Cubans
Carmen Pérez Torre
University of Pennsylvania | Hispanic and Portuguese Studies/Romance Languages
Counterhegemonic Mestizaje on a Changing Island: Punk Culture in Cuba
Graduate Research Fellows
Alyson Cluck
University of Maryland | Art History & Archaeology
Forms of Encounter: Zilia Sánchez’s "Topologías Eróticas" in 1960s New York
John Ermer
Florida International University | History
The Cuban Mahjar: Citizenship, Identity, and Lebanese and Syrian Migration to Cuba, 1880-1970
Lilianne Lugo Herrera
University of Miami | Modern Languages & Literatures
Mediated Archipelagoes: Theater, Women, and Media
Juan Esteban Plaza
Stanford University | Iberian & Latin American Cultures
The Riddles of Perspective: Secrecy Systems and Alternative Communities in Latin American Ethnography, novel, and film
Yairamaren Román Maldonado
University of California Berkeley | Spanish & Portuguese/Berkeley Center for New Media
Caribbean Imaginations in Twenty First Century Avant-Gardes
2018-2019 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Charles Grand
University of Texas at Arlington (History)
Combined and Uneven Investment: U.S. Capital and the Economic Development of Cuba
Cary Peñate
University of Texas at Austin (Musicology)
Rum, Tobacco, Dance, and Music: The Mulata as Signifier in Twentieth-Century Cuban Film
Justo Planas Cabreja
City University of New York, (Latin American, Iberian, & Latino Cultures)
Modernist literature and Latin American medicine: between strange forces and sick people (The case of Cuba)
Roseli Rojo Posada
Rutgers University (Spanish)
Resistances in the Cuban lettered city: excluded group’s interaction with the colonial city
Graduate Research Fellows
Laura Almeida
Pennsylvania State University (Art History)
Resisting Memory: Anti-Imperialist Tactics of Forgetting in Latin American Contemporary Art
Ingrid Brioso Rieumont
Princeton University (Spanish and Portuguese)
On the Other Side of the End—Imagining Cuba’s and Brazil’s Afterwards
Jorge Felipe González
Michigan State University (History)
Foundation and Growth of the Cuban Slave Trade, 1790-1840
Melissa Hampton
University of Minnesota (History)
The Gendered Politics of Refugee Resettlement in the Cuban Mariel Migration of 1980
Brianna Nofil
Columbia University (History)
Detention Power: Jails, Camps, and the Construction of Immigrant Incarceration
Carina Schorske
Columbia University (English & Comparative Literature)
Scattered Bodies, Fugitive Forms: American Women Artists in the Caribbean
Alberto Sosa Cabanas
Florida International University (Modern Languages)
Racism, Celebration and Otherness: Depictions of Blackness in the Cuban Cultural Discourse
2017-2018 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
John Ermer
Florida International University (History)
The Lebanese Mahjar in Cuba
Lilianne Lugo Herrera
University of Miami (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Transnational Black Bodies: Caribbean Perspectives on the Theater of the Cuban Diaspora
Rodrigo del Río
Harvard University (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Cuban Urban Imaginaries: Writing the City on the Verge of Revolution
Asiel Sepúlveda
Southern Methodist University (Art History)
City Impressions: Frédéric Mialhe and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Havana
Alberto Sosa Cabanas
Florida International University (Modern Languages)
Racism, Celebration and Otherness: Depictions of Blackness in the Cuban Cultural Discourse (1790- 1959)
Graduate Research Fellows
Elizabeth Cerejido
University of Florida (Art and Art History)
Cuban (American) Art: Beyond Nation and Diaspora
William Kelly
Rutgers University (History)
Revolución es [Re]construir: Housing Policy and Everyday Life in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1989
Sara Kozameh
New York University (History)
Harvest of Revolution: Cuban Agrarian Reform and the Politics of Consent, 1958-1970
Catherine Mas
Yale University (History, Program in the History of Science and Medicine)
The Culture Brokers: Medicine, Anthropology, and Transcultural Miami, 1960-1990
Corinna Moebius
Florida International University (Global and Sociocultural Studies)
Transnational Racial Politics of Public Memory and Public Space in Little Havana’s Heritage District
Rosanne Sia
University of Southern California (American Studies and Ethnicity)
Performing Fantasy in Motion: The Hemispheric Circulation of Women Performers, 1940-1960
2016-2017 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Melissa Bumbach
University of Miami (Choral Studies, Vocal Performance)
Conducting an oral history of Dr. Digna Guerra, the director of the National Choir of Cuba since 1975
Mariel Martínez-Alvarez
University of Michigan (Romance Languages)
Revisiting the Works of Gastón Baquero: The Cuban Revolution Through the Lens of a Fascist Intellectual
Vida Owusu-Boateng
Louisiana State University (Comparative Literature)
The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Africa and Cuba
Rachel Pérez
Yale University (American Studies)
Healing and religious practices among Cubans on the island and in the diaspora in the 20th and 21st centuries
James Wilkey
Louisiana State University (Latin American History)
Beyond an Island: Diaspora, Dispersal and Cuban Identity
Graduate Research Fellows
Samuel Finesurrey
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
The Paradoxes of Intimacy: An American Colony in Revolutionary Cuba (1952-1962)
Ernesto Fundora
University of Miami (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Beyond the Shadowed Forest: Canon Formation Processes in Cuban Theater
Richard Mwakasege-Minaya
University of Michigan (Screen Arts & Cultures)
Cuban Exiles Media Activism & Cold War Politics
José Villar
Florida International University (Modern Languages)
New Men, New Nations, New Selves: Queer Subjects Between Assimilation and Practices of Freedom in Contemporary Cuban Cultural Production
2015-2016 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Daniel Fernández
University of Florida (History)
Transnational contributions to Cuban state formation: The Spanish Republican Exiles in Cuba
William Kelly
Rutgers University (History)
Constancy and Change: An Analysis of Revolutionary-Era Urban Housing Policy in Cuba
Sara Kozameh
New York University (History)
The Agrarian Reforms in Revolutionary Cuba: 1959-1965
Richard Mwakasege-Minaya
University of Michigan (Screen Arts & Cultures)
Disseminating Greater Cuba: Cuban Exiles & Cuban-American Media Production
José Villar
Florida International University (Modern Languages)
New Men, New Nations, New Selves: Queer Subjects Between Assimilation and Practices of Freedom in Contemporary Cuban Cultural Production
Graduate Research Fellows
Francisca Aguilo Mora
University of Miami (Modern Languages and Literature)
Language Crossing and Multiaccentuality in Women Writers del Gran Caribe: Narrative, Drama and Performance
Elise Arnold-Levene
Columbia University (Latin American and Iberian Cultures)
Lydia Cabrera, the Storyteller as Collector
Gillian Beach
West Virginia University (Political Science)
Diffusion or Dissent: Examining International Advocacy Efforts and Domestic Policy Divergence
Antonio Cardentey Levin
University of Florida (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
Crítica de la pasión caribeña. La dialéctica de los afectos en la novela histórica del Caribe insular hispano
Anasa Hicks
New York University (History)
Servants, not Workers: Domestic Labor in Cuba, 1902-1975
Dana Linda
University of California, Los Angeles (Comparative Literature)
Urban Landscapes: gender and the global cartographies of Caribbean literary cities
Rebecca Salois
City University of New York (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages)
Choteo Cubano: Humor as a Critical Tool in 20th Century Cuban Theater
2014-2015 Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Francisca Aguilo Mora
University of Miami (Modern Languages and Literature)
Multilingual Voices in el Gran Caribe: The Inscription of a New Language That Talks a New Usanocaribeña Spatiality
Fernanda Bretones Lane
Vanderbuilt University (History)
Cuba and the Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions
Sarah Becker
University of Houston (Hispanic Studies)
Yemayá and Ochún, or the Literary Tradition of the Feminine Orishas: The Feminist-Queer Ethnography of Lydia Cabrera
Kaitlyn Henderson
Tulane University (History)
The Gospel of José Martí: Cuban Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century
Oscar Amaya Ortega
Georgetown University (Spanish and Portuguese)
Interdisciplinary Dialogue in Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam’s Afro-Cuban Collaborations
Graduate Research Fellows
Alexander Eastman
Washington University in St. Louis (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Binding Freedom: Cuba’s Black Public Sphere, 1868-1912
Zeila Frade
Florida International University (Modern Languages)
Children’s Literature, Ideology and Cultural Identity Before and After the Cuban Revolution
Ann Halbert-Brooks
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
Teaching the Revolution: Growing the Cuban Culture of Education, 1959
Joseph Hartman
Southern Methodist University (Art History)
The Rocks and Marbles Speak: Spatial Cultures of Republican Cuba
Eric Mayer-García
Louisiana State University (Theatre)
Cuban Avant-Garde Theatre in the United States: 1978-1991
Jeanine Navarrete
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
“See it like a native”: Race and the Politics of Latino Immigration to Miami, 1965-1980
2013-2014 Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Alexis Baldacci
University of Florida (History)
The Haves and Have-Nots: Material Culture in Revolutionary Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora, 1959-1980
Walfrido Dorta Sánchez
City University of New York (Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literature & Language)
Intellectual and Cultural Politics in Cuba and Cuban Exile in United States (1960-2000): the Map of the Cultural Journals
Maikel Fariñas Borrego
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
Regional Pressure Groups in Cuba: Rotary Clubs, Local Elites, and Conflicting Interests, 1916-1968
Cary García Yero
University of Pittsburgh (History)
Masculinities and Musical Culture in Havana 1940-1970
Eric Herschtal
Columbia University (History)
Black Communication Networks between the early American republic and Cuba (1775-1833)
Anasa Hicks
New York University (History)
Domestic work in 20th century Cuba
Eric Mayer-García
Louisiana State University (Theatre)
Translocating Theatrical and Cuban Imaginaries: Virgilio Piñera's Electra Garrigó in Miami, 1978
Kevin Sedeño-Guillen
University of Kentucky (Hispanic Studies)
The Colonial Modernity of the Spanish American literary criticism of the second half of the 18th century
Graduate Research Fellows
Hideaki Kami
Ohio State University (History)
Diplomacy and Migration: A Transformation of U.S. Relations with Cuba, 1974-1992
Elizabeth Schwall
Columbia University (History)
Embodied Communiqués and the Politics of Revolutionary Culture in Cuba, 1959 - 1989
Kelly Urban
University of Pittsburgh (History)
For the Poor Sick Ones and for Cuba: Tuberculosis and Nationalism in Cuba, 1902-1959
Francis Watlington
University of Texas at Austin (Spanish & Portuguese)
Risueños febriles: Dehumanization, Embodiment, and Ethics in the Subject of Cuban Existentialist Poetics
Gabriela Zaviezo
University of Miami (Modern Languages & Literatures)
Visual and discursive representations of gender during the past 30 years in Cuba
2012-2013 Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Russell J. 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 Pérez
Michigan State University (Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education - College of Education)
Language, Literacy, Identity and Culture in the Cuban Diaspora
Graduate Research Fellows
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 (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
2011-2012 Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Sitela Alvarez
Tulane University (History)
The Religious and Nationalist Transformation of Cuba, 1790-1860
Michael Bustamante
Yale University (History)
Cuban Counterpoints: Memory Dialogues Across the Florida Straits, 1959-2009
Kelly Urban
University of Pittsburgh (History)
Tuberculosis in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba: A Social History
Graduate Research Fellows
Daylet Domínguez
Princeton University (Spanish)
Etnografía, narración y proyectos nacionales en el Caribe insular hispánico, 1820-1920
Joao Goncalves
University of Chicago (Anthropology)
Marti versus Marti: Nationalism and Political Symbolism in Havana and Miami
Joseph Holbrook
Florida International University (History)
Catholic Student Movements in Brazil and Cuba, 1946 to 1966
Rachel Hynson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
Sexing the Cuban Revolution: Gender Difference and Sexuality as Tools of Nation-Making, 1959-1975
Jennifer Lambe
Yale University (History)
Baptism by Fire: The Making and Remaking of Madness in Cuba, 1899-1980
Bonnie Lucero
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
Race, Nation, and Empire in Cuba: Race Relations amidst Imperial Transition, 1895-1906
Kristina Shull
University of California, Irvine (History)
Nobody Wants These People: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and America’s First Private Prisons
2010-2011 Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellows
Bonnie Lucero
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
Post-colonial Peculiarities: Cultural Reflections of Race and Gender on the Road to Cuban Independence
Martin Tsang
Florida International University (Global & Sociocultural Studies)
Afro-Chinese Identity and Religion in Cuba
Katerina Seligman
Brown University (Comparative Literature)
Caribbean Intellectual Voyages: Traveling Texts, Traveling Ideas, and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Graduate Research Fellows
Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela
University of California, Davis (English)
Hemispheric Routes, Marginalized Economies, and Liberal Rights
Anita Casavantes-Bradford
University of California, San Diego (History)
The Politics of Childhood in Miami and Havana, 1959-1962
Jorge Castillo
University of Connecticut (Modern & Classical Languages)
Limits of Transient Sexualities: Globalization and (Trans)Caribbean Queer Subjectivities
Stephen Chambers
Brown University (History)
The American State of Cuba: The Business of Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine
Raúl Galván
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (History)
Cuban Transnationalism in the Late 19th Century: Citizenship, Sugar and Revolution
Clarisa Mondejar
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (History)
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Daily Life in Havana, 1895-1898
Susanna Rodríguez Drissi
University of California, Los Angeles (Comparative Literature)
The Secret Life of Ruins: Exile and Melancholy in Cuban and Algerian Literatures