Contributors
- Contributors
Sandra Alvarez Ramírez obtuvo su licenciatura en psicología de la Universidad de la Habana en 1996, su diplomada en género y comunicación del Instituto Internacional de Periodismo "José Martí" en 2006, y su master en estudios de género de la Universidad de la Habana en 2008. Ha sido invitada para dar seminarios y ponencias en la University of the West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica, 2009), London Metropolitan University (United Kingdom, 2010) y Universidad de Madeira (Madeira, Portugal, 2011). Trabaja en Cubaliteraria (http://www.cubaliteraria.cu) y se conoce por su propio blog (http://negracuban ateniaqueser.wordpress.com). Ha publicado "Esclavitud y cuerpos al desnudo: La sexualidad de la mujer negra", Revista Sexología y Sociedad (agosto 2008, disponible en http://www.cenesex.sld.cu/webs/esclavitud_y_cuerpos_al_desnudo_37.htm37) y "Mujeres, raza e identidad caribeña: Conversación con Inés María Martiatu", La Gaceta 1 (enero 2010).
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba. Her books include Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993), The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (1996), and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (2007). She edited Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba and coedited, with Lucía Suárez, The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World (2008). Her documentary, Adio Kerida/Goodbye Dear Love: A Cuban Sephardic Journey (2002) has been shown in film festivals around the world. She is the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Distinguished Alumna Award from Wesleyan University.
Mariela Castro Espín is director of the National Center for Sexual Education, where she is also editor of Sexología y Sociedad and member of the academic committee for the master's programs in sexuality and community action. She serves as president of the National Commission for Comprehensive Care of Transsexual People and principal coordinator of the educational strategy and campaign for free sexual orientation and gender identity. She was president of the Cuban Multidisciplinary Society for the Study of Sexuality (2000-2010), and since 2005 she has been a member of the advisory committee of the World Association for Sexual Health. She is professor and assistant researcher at the University of Medical Sciences and Pedagogical Sciences in Havana, as well as assistant adjunct professor at the Pedagogical University of Havana, and has participated in more than eighty national and international events. Her authored, coauthored, and edited publications include La Transexualidad en Cuba (2008) and ¿Qué nos pasa en la Pubertad? (2004). For her inspirational work as adviser and scriptwriter for the animation series Pubertad, she received the 2011 Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano [End Page 265] and special recognition from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She was recognized, in 2009, with the Public Service Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. In 2012 she received the Eureka Prize for Scientific Excellence, awarded by the Consejo Mundial de Académicos Universitarios.
Patricia Daniel is an international development consultant specializing in gender, education, and social development, with extensive experience in Latin and Central America and the Caribbean. Previously senior lecturer at the Centre for International Development and Training, University of Wolverhampton and now associate at Education for Change, she has carried out evaluations for the British government, the European Union, and the United Nations. From 2007 to 2009, she was honorary research fellow at London Metropolitan University, acting as assistant editor for International Journal of Cuban Studies. Her publications include No Other Reality: The Life and Times of Nora Astorga (1998); Women, Peace and Democracy in Mali (2007); Evaluation of the Commonwealth Secretariat's Strategy for Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming (2007); and "Women, Democracy and Change on the Internet" (Journal of the World Universities Forum, 2008).
Mélanie Josée Davidson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Queen's University. Her current project is titled Ensaladas mixtas y ropa vieja: The Political Economy of Dinner in Cuba. Along with Catherine Krull, Soraya Castro (Havana University), Louis Perez Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Susan Eckstein (Boston...
