Lisandro Pérez is Professor of Sociology at FIU. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Miami and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida. His first teaching position was at Louisiana State University. After ten years at LSU, he accepted the position of Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at FIU, Miami’s senior public university, guiding the department through the process of establishing a graduate program in Comparative Sociology. In 1991, after leaving the Chair’s position, he founded FIU’s Cuban Research Institute and developed it into the premier academic center in the U.S. for the study of Cuba and Cuban-Americans, serving as its director until 2003. He is the former editor of the journal Cuban Studies and co-author of the book The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States, recently published by Allyn & Bacon. He has traveled to Cuba frequently during the past ten years. Pérez is the author of "A Cuban Transition…in Miami," a special report commissioned for CubaInfo. Submit your question for Lisandro Pérez by using the email form below.
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