New Books in Cuban Studies: From Former Goizueta Fellows of the Cuban Heritage Collection

Featuring Anasa Hicks, Ph.D., author, "Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution;" Kelly Urban, Ph.D., author, "Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba;" with Jennifer Lambe, Ph.D., Department of History, Brown University; and moderated by Michael J. Bustamante, Ph.D., Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the College of Arts and Sciences, Cuban Heritage Collection at the Libraries, University of Miami.

Thursday, June 15, 2023, 2 p.m. (EDT)

Historians of Cuba continue to push scholarly frontiers by examining underappreciated aspects of the island’s past. Likewise, newer work in Cuban history often confounds standard chronologies by bridging the colonial, republican, and revolutionary periods in fresh ways.

This conversation with former Goizueta fellows of the Cuban Heritage Collection, Anasa Hicks and Kelly Urban, celebrates the publication of their recent books and delves into the history of labor, gender, race, public health, state-building, and more across 20th-century Cuba. Each author gives a short presentation followed by remarks from Jennifer Lambe and a question and answer session with the audience.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Anasa Hicks (Ph.D., New York University) will be associate professor of Caribbean history at Florida State University as of August 2023. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, and labor in the 20th-century Spanish Caribbean, particularly Cuba. Her first book, "Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She also contributed a chapter to the anthology "The Global History of Black Girlhood," published by Indiana University Press in 2022. She was the recipient of a Goizueta Research Fellowship at the Cuban Heritage Collection in 2015–2016 and a Pre-Prospectus Fellowship in 2013. Learn more »

Kelly Urban (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama. Her book "Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba" was published with the University of North Carolina Press in 2023. She has also been published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and Cuban Studies, and her research has been supported by the American Historical Association and the Rockefeller Archive Center. She was the recipient of a Goizueta Research Fellowship at the Cuban Heritage Collection in 2013 and a Pre-Prospectus Fellowship in 2011. Learn more »

Jennifer Lambe (Ph.D., Yale University) is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Brown University. She is the author of "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and, together with Michael J. Bustamante, co-editor of "The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980" (Duke University Press, 2019). She was the recipient of a Goizueta Research Fellowship at the Cuban Heritage Collection in 2011. Learn more »

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Michael J. Bustamante (Ph.D., Yale University) is associate professor of history and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of "Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile" (University of North Carolina, 2021) and, together with Jennifer Lambe, co-editor of "The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980" (Duke University Press, 2019). Michael also serves as director of academic programs at the Cuban Heritage Collection. He was the recipient of a Goizueta Research Fellowship at the Cuban Heritage Collection in 2012 and a Pre-Prospectus Fellowship in 2011. Learn more »