Doctorate (1970), University of New Mexico; Master (1966), Univ Of Arizona
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 100%
Languages:
• Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
19th-and 20th- century Latin American history, Caribbean, Cuba
Relevant Experience:
Professional travel to Cuba 3-4 times every year
Distinctions:
• 2008-2012 Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
Elected member, Academia de la Historia de Cuba, 2012.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
15
Relevant Courses Taught:
• HIST 143 Latin American since Independence • HIST 531 History of the Caribbean • HIST 532 History of Cuba
Recent Publications:
• 2016 “As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspectives, 8 (June 2015): http://origins.osu.edu/article/cuba-and-united-states-reengage-presence-past
• 2016 “Change Through Impoverishment: A Half Century of Cuba-U.S. Relations,” NACLA, posted December 14, 2015,
• 2016 “Change Through Empowerment: A Half Century of Cuba-U.S. Relations,” NACLA, posted December 17, 2015,
• 2016 “How Things Have Remarkably Changed Between U.S. and Cuba,” May 22, 2015,
• 2016 “U.S. was State Sponsor of Terror Against Cuba,” June 3, 2015, http://ftp.progressive.org/news/2015/06/188163/latino-voices-us-was-state-sponsor-terror-against-cuba
• 2016 “Approaching Change and Changelessness in the Historiography of Cuba," Cuban Studies, 43 (2015), 130-134.
• 2016 https://nacla.org/news/2015/12/13/change-through-impoverishment-half-century-cuba-us-relations
• 2016 https://nacla.org/news/2015/12/16/change-through-empowerment-half-century-cuba-us-relations
• 2016 http://www.progressivemediaproject.org/
• 2016 “U.S.-Cuba Relations Still Far From Normal,” http://www.progressivemediaproject.org/story/us-cuba-relations-still-far-normal
• 2015 Cuba en el imaginario de los Estados Unidos. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2015. (Translation of Cuba in the American Imagination (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
• 2015 http://www.american.edu/clals/Implications-of-Normalization-with-SSRC-Perez.cfm
• 2015 “What Cuba Deal Says to Latin America,” CNNOpinion, December 17, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/18/opinion/perez-cuba-relations/
• 2015 “Cuba: Neither Success nor Failure,” Zócalo Public Square, February 28, 2015, http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/02/28/will-cuba-go-from-enemy-to-frenemy/ideas/up-for-discussion/
• 2015 Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, Fifth edition, 2014.
• 2015 “The United States Reengages Cuba: The Habits of Power,” April 2015,
• 2015 “The Woeful History of Proxy Armies,” Raleigh News & Observer, December 6, 2014.
• 2015 “US needs to keep past in mind with Cuba,” Newsday, February 5, 2015, http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/u-s-needs-to-keep-past-in-mind-with-cuba-louis-a-perez-jr-1.9907498
• 2014 “Cuba as an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,” http://www.democracyinamericas.org/blog-post, April 2014.
• 2014 Op-Ed: “The Furor over Obama-Castro Handshake is Absurd,” December 18, 2013,
• 2014 The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
• 2014 Op-Ed: “U.S. Needs a Fresh Approach to Cuba,” http://www.progressive.org/cuba, March 31, 2013.
• 2014 progressive.org/the-furor-over-the-obama-castro-handshake-is-absurd.
• 2013 The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
• 2008 Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Paperback edition: 2011
• 2005 To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. 2005.
• 2005 Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005.
• 2001 Winds of Change:Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press. 2001
• 1999 On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 1999
• 1998 The War of 1898:The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press. 1998.
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