Katrin Hansing is Visiting Associate Director of the Cuban Research Institute at FIU. As an anthropologist she has spent the last ten years conducting research in and on Cuba and its diaspora (including Miami, Spain, South Africa, and Mozambique). Her main areas of Cuba related interest and expertise include: race/ethnicity, religion, transnational relations, remittances, medical internationalism, youth, and civil society. Currently she is working on a project on conflict prevention/transformation. Dr. Hansing received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and is the author of Rasta, Race, and Revolution: The Emergence and Development of the Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba (2006). Apart from her academic pursuits, she has worked as a consultant for think tanks and policy institutes and is currently completing a documentary film about Che Guevara’s Swahili translator in the Congo. Submit your question for Katrin Hansing by using the email form below. Please limit one (1) question per email. |