Contributors
- Contributors
Ana Amigo studied undergraduate courses in Madrid, Florence, and Granada, and then fulfilled a master's degree in Spanish art. In 2012 she started a PhD program at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This scholarship has allowed her to enrich her dissertation process by carrying out research in Havana (2014), at New York University (2015), and at the OpenSpace Research Centre in the United Kingdom (2016). She is currently finishing her PhD dissertation "Looking for a Modern Identity: Urban Leisure in Nineteenth-Century Havana (1844–1868)." Her research interests are cross-cultural and urban studies, postcolonial theories, and the trope of modernity.
Ruth Behar is Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Award. Ruth's recent books include An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba and Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys. She is the editor of the pioneering anthology Bridges to Cuba and coeditor, with Lucía Suarez, of The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World. Her documentary Adio Kerida/Goodbye Dear Love: A Cuban Sephardic Journey, has traveled the world. With poet Richard Blanco, she runs a blog that offers a forum for Cuban stories that engage the heart as the island moves into a new era of its history (www.bridgestocuba.com).
Devyn Spence Benson is an assistant professor of Africana and Latin American studies at Davidson College. She is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with a focus on race and revolution in Cuba. She is the author of articles and reviews in Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Cuban Studies, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association. Benson's book Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) is based on more than eighteen months of field research in Cuba, where she has traveled annually since 2003. Follow her on Twitter@BensonDevyn.
Takkara Brunson is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Fresno. Her research examines gender and women of African descent in Latin America and the African diaspora. Her articles have appeared in Gender & History and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Currently, she is preparing her manuscript, "Constructing Black Cuban Womanhood: Gender and Racial Politics between Emancipation and the Cuban Revolution, 1886–1950s."
Roberto Veiga González is an interviewer and compiler of interviews in Cuba. He earned his bachelor's in law from the University of Havana and enrolled in doctorate [End Page 391] courses in political science at the University of Florence; he is the former editor of Espacio Laical; currently he is coeditor of Cuba Posible (Havana), and he has published many articles on Cuba (rveigagonzalez@gmail.com).
Lenier González Mederos is an interviewer and compiler of interviews in Cuba. He earned his bachelor's in social communications from the University of Havana; he completed doctorate courses in sociology at the University of Florence; he is former vice-editor of Espacio Laical; currently he is coeditor of Cuba Posible (Havana), one of the most important and influential magazines in Cuba, and he has published many articles on Cuba. (lenioglez@gmail.com)
Yvon Grenier is professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of Guerre et pouvoir au Salvador (Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1994), The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador (University of Pittsburgh Press and Macmillan, 1999), Art and Politics: Octavio Paz and the Pursuit of Freedom (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001; Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2004), and coauthor with Maarten Van Delden of Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009, 2012). He edited a book of political essays by the Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, entitled Sueño en libertad, escritos políticos (Seix Barral, 2001). Grenier was editor of Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is contributing editor of Literal, Latin American Voices.
Jenna Leving Jacobson completed her PhD in Romance languages and literatures from the University of Chicago in 2014. Her dissertation, "Confessing Exile: Revolution and Redemption in the Narratives of the...
