Re-Sounding History / Urgency Courts (Goizueta Fellows Forum)

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.

Elisa Alfonso

Ethno/Musicology, University of Texas at Austin

Elisa Alfonso is about to embark on her third year of the Ethnomusicology Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Austin, after having completed an M.M. in Ethnomusicology at Florida State University in 2019 and two bachelor’s degrees (B.A. Hispanic Studies, B.M. flute performance) at East Carolina University in 2016. She is deeply interested in the ways music and sound impact and shape children, memories of childhood, the development of children, and the perceptions that childhood adults and children have. Her present research on the soundscapes and memoryscapes of Operation Pedro Pan is rooted in a self-reflective endeavor—she grew up hearing her father talk about his experiences in migrating as an unaccompanied child through the Operation, and it inspired her to combine her fascination with sound with her passion for creating safer and more conducive environments for children in her forthcoming dissertation work. Elisa has worked with an El Sistema USA program and AmeriCorps Youth Development programs to better serve underprivileged youth as an administrator, coordinator, and educator. In her spare time, she conducts private flute lessons online to a studio of ten children. Read more »

Amalia Pérez Martín

Sociology, University of California, Merced

 

Amalia Pérez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She graduated from law school at the University of Havana in 2009 and earned master’s degrees in political science and sociology in Cuba, Ecuador, and the United States. She has published in edited volumes and academic journals, such as Cuban Studies and NACLA. Her research interests include anti-austerity protest and resistance against neoliberalism in Latin America, community organizing, legal mobilization, political repression, intersectionality, political identities, discursive framing and storytelling, content analysis, and historical sociology. Amalia’s dissertation examines the paradoxical role of law in revolutionary and post-revolutionary times in Cuba. Read more »