Sherry Johnson is associate professor of Latin American history in the Department of History. She came to FIU after receiving her Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Florida in 1995. Recently she served as guest editor of a special section on women in Cuban history with K. Lynn Stoner, “Trespassing Historic Gender Boundaries in Cuba,” in Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos. Her current project, Mercantilism Meets Mother Nature: El Niño’s Atlantic World Repercussions in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1804 is a study of the social, political, and economic effects of how hurricanes generated by four decades of El Niño activity caused environmental collapse in eighteenth-century Cuba and the Caribbean. Submit your question for Sherry Johnson by using the email form below. Please limit one (1) question per email. |