Lisandro Pérez, Ph.D.

Professor, John Jay College, City University of New York

Great-grandson of Colonel Ernesto Fonts y Sterling

Lisandro Pérez is a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at John Jay College, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Florida and his B.A. degree from the University of Miami. He was on the faculty of Florida International University for 25 years, where he served as director of its Cuban Research Institute, which he established in 1991. He was editor of the journal "Cuban Studies," and author of numerous publications on Cuba and Cuban Americans. His most recent book, "Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York" (New York University Press, 2018) won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History, awarded by the New York Academy of History. Read more »