Contributors
- Contributors
Michael J. Bustamante is assistant professor of history at Florida International University. He earned his PhD from Yale University in 2016. Together with Jennifer Lambe, he is coeditor of The Revolution From Within: Cuba, 1959–1980, forthcoming from Duke University Press. His scholarly writings have appeared in Journal of American Ethnic History and Latino Studies, among other publications.
María A. Cabrera Arús, PhD (New School for Social Research, sociology), is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University. Cabrera Arús's research focuses on the impact of fashion and domestic material culture on regime stability and legitimation. Her manuscript "Dressed for the Party: Fashion and Politics in Socialist Cuba" presents fashion both as a mechanism of social engineering oriented to produce a socialist "new man" and legitimize the state socialist regime and as a means of protest and resistance. Cabrera Arús is currently studying the relationship between domestic space and political discourses and ideology in the Hispanic Caribbean.
Dr. Carmen Diana Deere is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies and Food & Resource Economics at the University of Florida. Formerly director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies, she is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association. She has carried out research on Cuban agriculture since the 1980s, most recently as part of the UF and University of Havana collaborative research project on the agricultural sector and the international economy.
Jorge I. Domínguez is the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Emeritus, in the Government Department at Harvard University. He is a former university vice provost for international affairs and a former president of the Latin American Studies Association. His first book on Cuba was Cuba: Order and Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1978); his most recent book, this time coedited with O. Everleny, and L. Barberia, is The Cuban Economy in a New Era: An Agenda for Change towards Durable Development (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Christina García is a doctoral student in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of California, Irvine. She examines friendship and hospitality as minor and extrainstitutional political practices in literary and visual works from Cuba. Her work concerns itself with corporeality, materiality, and disarticulations of the human in a postrevolutionary context.
Cary Aileen García Yero is a PhD candidate at Harvard University's History Department. Her research focuses on how interpretations of cubanidad were negotiated and contested through artistic practices in Cuba from 1938 to 1963. She is also managing editor of Cuban Studies and Cuba Studies Program Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. García Yero completed her MA at the University of British Columbia. Her thesis, "Is It All about Love: Filin and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba," was published in the Studies in Latin America Popular Culture (2012). She has taught history courses at Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley.
Yvon Grenier (PhD, Université Laval) es profesor de ciencia política a la universidad St. Francis Xavier en Nueva Escocia, Canada. Es autor de Culture and the Cuban State: Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism (2017), Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America (con Maarten Van Delden, 2009), From Art and Politics: Octavio Paz and the Pursuit of Freedom (2001; Spanish trans. 2004), The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador (1999) y Guerre et pouvoir au Salvador (1994). Es editor (selección de textos y prólogo) de una colección de ensayos políticos de Octavio Paz, Sueño en libertad, escritos políticos (2001). Grenier fue director de la Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies y es contributing editor de la revista digital Literal, Latin American Voices.
Julio César Guanche Zaldívar es doctor en historia y miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. Ha dirigido varias publicaciones y editoriales nacionales. Trabajó por varios años en la Casa del Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. Ha publicado prólogos y capítulos en más de 20 volúmenes. Son de su autoría los libros La verdad no se ensaya: Cuba: el socialismo y la democracia y...
