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The following reports on the contemporary dynamics of Cuban society were commissioned for Cuba Info from several of the nation's leading experts on Cuba, including faculty affiliates of the CRI.
- Antonio José Ponte:
La Habana: ciudad y archivo
Antonio José Ponte (Matanzas, Cuba, 1964) Poeta, ensayista y narrador.
Ha publicado, entre otros títulos, “Las comidas profundas” (Deleatur, Angers, 1997),
“Asiento en las ruinas” (Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2005), “In the cold of the Malecón &
other stories” (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2000), “Cuentos de todas partes del
Imperio” (Deleatur, Angers, 2000), “Un seguidor de Montaigne mira La Habana/Las
comidas profundas” (Verbum, Madrid, 2001), “Contrabando de sombras” (Mondadori,
Barcelona, 2002), “El libro perdido de los origenistas” (Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2004),
“Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos” (Fondo de Cultura Económica, México D.F.,
2005) y “La fiesta vigilada” (Anagrama, Barcelona, 2007).
Es co-director de la revista “Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana”, que se publica en Madrid.
- Marifeli Pérez-Stable:
Cuban Politics After 1990
Marifeli Pérez-Stable is vice president for democratic governance at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC and a professor of sociology at Fiorida International University. She is the author of The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy (OUP,2nd edition, 1999) and editor of Cuba en el siglo XXI: Ensayos sobre la transición (Editorial Colibrí, 2006). Her column on Latin American topics appears every other Thursday in the Miami Herald.
- Alejandro M. de la Fuente:
Racism, Culture, and Mobilization
Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, Alejandro M. de la Fuente focuses on Latin American and Caribbean history and comparative slavery and race relations. An expert on race relations in Cuba, he is the author of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press 2001).
- Juan J. López:
Alternative Futures in Cuba
Juan J. López is the Director of Research at Florida International University's Latin American and Caribbean Center. Among his scholarly publications is Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro's Cuba (The Johns Hopkins University Press 2002).
- Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado:
The Current Status and Future Prospects for Oil Exploration in Cuba
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Assistant Director for Research and Outreach of the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has authored numerous books, articles and reports on various dimensions of energy development policy in Cuba since 1990 and has visited the island over 20 times in that period.
- Cecilia Bobes:
Sucesión del poder en Cuba: Repensando el escenario del cambio
Velia Cecilia Bobes León is a Professor of Social Sciences at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Mexico City. An expert on Cuban civil society, she is the co-editor of La transición invisible: Sociedad y cambio político en Cuba (Oceáno Press 2004) and the author of Los laberintos de la imaginación: repertorio simbólico, identidades y actores del cambio social en Cuba (El Colegio de México 2000).
- Ted Henken:
Dirigentes, Diplogente, Indigentes, and Delincuentes: Official Corruption and Underground Honesty in Today's Cuba
Ted Henken is a Professor of Black and Hispanic Studies and Sociology at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is currently co-authoring a book about the development of micro-enterprise and the underground economy in socialist Cuba.
In addition, the following links provide access to research on Cuba conducted by the Cuban Research Institute's affiliated faculty:
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