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Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 2 p.m. (EST)

A presentation of the 2021–2022 cohort of Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellows as they highlight and discuss their research using materials and resources from the Cuban Heritage Collection. 

Launched in 2010 with a generous grant from The Goizueta Foundation, the Goizueta Graduate Fellowship Program supports doctoral research at the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection with the goal of engaging emerging scholars with the materials available in the Cuban Heritage Collection, contributing to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban and Cuban diaspora studies.


ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Richard Denis
History, Florida International University

Richard Denis is a Ph.D. candidate at Florida International University (FIU) studying Atlantic history with a focus on Latin America. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from FIU and a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Florida. His dissertation will examine the public sphere and the politics of print media in twentieth-century Cuba. Read more »


Tara Phillips
Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
 

Tara Phillips is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She studies U.S., Latin American, and Caribbean literatures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a food studies perspective. She is interested in the relationship between the history of food production and consumption, imperialism, race, gender, and aesthetics. Read more »