FIU, located in the heart of Miami?s Cuban-American community, has experts on Cuba and the Cuban experience, on and off the island. Our scholars and researchers can discuss a wide range of subjects, including politics, human rights, sociology, media, the arts and recent events. Most of our experts are available for interviews in English and Spanish.
For questions or assistance in contacting any of the following experts, please call the Office of Media Relations:
Maydel Santana-Bravo: 305-348-1555, santanam@fiu.edu
Jean-Paul Renaud: 305-348-2716, jprenaud@fiu.edu
Madeline Baro: 305-348-2234, mbaro@fiu.edu
Lilyvania Mikulski: 305-348-6944, lmikulsk@fiu.edu
Dianne Fernandez: 305-348-2232, dfernand37@fiu.edu
JoAnn Adkins: 305-348-0398, joann.adkins@fiu.edu
TRANSITION/ CUBAN MILITARY?
Juan Carlos Espinosa, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Fellow of the Honors College, Juan Carlos Espinosa, is a political scientist by training specializing in comparative politics, civil-military relations, and Latin American issues. He has published works on numerous topics, including ?Problems of Post Communism? and ?Cuba in Transition.? He completed a manuscript on the emergence of state and civil society in Cuba, and is conducts research on the potential role of the Cuban military in a regime transition.
juancarlos.espinosa@fiu.edu
305-348-6795 (Office)
786-218-9518 (Mobile)
Marifeli Perez-Stable, Ph.D.
Interim director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center, Marifeli P?rez-Stable, has published widely on Cuban and Latin American politics. Most recently, she authored The United States and Cuba: Intimate Enemies (2011) and The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy, 3rd edition (2012). Her opinion pieces have appeared in El Pa?s (Spain), El Clar?n (Argentina), Financial Times (UK), ?Excelsior (Mexico), El Nuevo Herald, and The Miami Herald. From 2004 to 2009, she served as vice president for democratic governance at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. She chaired the Task Force on Memory, Truth, and Justice which issued the 2003 report, Cuban National Reconciliation. For more information, visit http://MarifeliPerez-Stable.com.
Marifeli.Perez-Stable@fiu.edu
305-348-2899 (Office)
305-793-8974 (Mobile)
DISSIDENTS/ HUMAN RIGHTS
Sebastian Arcos
Born in Havana in 1961, Sebastian Arcos is the associate director of development in the College of Arts and Sciences. His father and uncle were active participants in Castro?s revolutionary movement and briefly held important governmental positions, but were soon disillusioned by the new regime?s totalitarian nature. His entire family was arrested and sent to prison for attempting to leave Cuba illegally in 1981. In 1987 he joined the Cuban Committee for Human Rights (CCPDH), the first independent Cuban human rights organization, and was part of the CCPDH team who met with the Special Group from the UN Commission on Human Rights who visited the island in 1988.? He was finally allowed to leave Cuba in 1992.? For three consecutive years (1995, 1996, 1997) Sebastian was part of the Freedom House delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland.? He later advised the U.S. Department of State on issues concerning human rights in Cuba between 1998 and 2000.
Sebastian.Arcos@fiu.edu
305-348-7250 (Office)
305-431-4576 (Mobile)
SOCIAL/POLITICAL ANALYSIS?
Jorge Duany, Ph.D.
Jorge Duany is director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology. Before coming to FIU, he served as acting dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, R?o Piedras. He previously served as Director of UPR?s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, specializing in anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University. Duany has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in the Caribbean and the United States.
joduany@fiu.edu
305-348-7274 (Office)
Eduardo Gamarra, Ph.D.
Political Science Professor Eduardo Gamarra has done research on the regional dynamics of Latin America, including Cuba?s role. As an expert in Bolivia and the Andean region, he has followed closely the alliances formed by Fidel Castro, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Gamarra has also studied drug trafficking in the Caribbean and the effects of American policies in the regional dynamics. He has testified in front of the U.S. Congress several times and is the author of more than half a dozen books and more than forty academic articles on Latin America.
305-348-1718 (Office)
786-253-4898 (Cell)
Eduardo.Gamarra@fiu.edu
Guillermo Grenier, Ph.D.
Sociology Professor Guillermo Grenier has been one of the lead researchers in charge of the Cuba Poll FIU has been conducting since 1991. The poll measures the attitudes and opinions of Cuban-Americans in South Florida on issues ranging from their support for the U.S. embargo, to their party preference. In addition to the poll, he is the author of books such as ?Miami Now: Immigration, Ethnicity and Social Change;? ?Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States;? and ?This Land is Our Land: Newcomers and Established Residents in Miami,? in which he is a co-author. He has also written numerous articles on labor and ethnic issues in the United States.
Guillermo.Grenier@fiu.edu
305-348-3217 (Office)
305-388-6469 (Home)
Hugh Gladwin, Ph.D.
Hugh Gladwin, director of the Institute for Public Opinion Research at FIU?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been one of the lead researchers of the FIU Cuba Poll FIU since 1991. The polls questions range from whether exiles would consider going back to Cuba, to their attitudes on the United States Embargo on the island. Gladwin is professor of sociology and anthropology and concentrates on statistical analysis of opinions and political trends. His work also includes analysis of sociological impacts of hurricanes and consumer preferences.
Hugh.Gladwin@fiu.edu
305-919-4718 (Office)
305-608-9961 (Mobile)
MIAMI POLITICS
Dario Moreno, Ph.D.
Political Science Professor Dario Moreno conducts research on Cuban-American politics, Miami politics and Florida politics. He is a contributing editor to the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. He has also conducted extensive research in Central America, including the region?s relationship with Fidel Castro?s regime. He has been a Pew Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Fulbright scholar in Costa Rica.
Dario.moreno@fiu.edu
305-349-1251 (Office)
305-444-2874 (Cell)
PSYCHOLOGY/MENTAL HEALTH
Eugenio M. Rothe M.D.
Dr. Rothe is a psychiatry professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at FIU. He is an internationally renowned expert on the psychological effects of migration and exile and was the first psychiatrist to describe Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the Cuban ?balseros?. He is the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association?s Bruno Lima Award for contributions to the study of the mental health effects of war and disasters and received a Citation for Civilian Merit from the U.S. Armed Forces for his voluntary services to the Cuban ?balseros? in Guantanamo during the 1994 exodus. His latest research papers include: ?A Psychotherapy Model for Treating Child Refugees Caught in the Midst of Catastrophic Situations? and ?Historical Trauma, Losses and Separations: A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Specific Mental Health Problems of Exiles?
erothe@fiu.edu
305-774-1699 (Cell)
IMMIGRATION & ETHNICITY
Alex Stepick, Ph.D.
Anthropologist and Sociologist Alex Stepick is the Director of the Research Institute on social and Economic Policy in the Center for Labor Research and a professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at FIU. He has been conducting research on the impact of immigration in Miami for the past 30 years. As an author, he has published eight books and approximately 100 articles on immigration to the U.S., including the co-authored ?City on the Edge,? a book on how immigration has changed Miami. Stepick received his B.A in Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and his Ph.D. in Social Sciences at the University of California Irvine. He had his postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University and was a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University and a Fulbright Fellow both in Mexico and in Germany.
Alex.Stepick@fiu.edu
305-348-2247 (Office)
Danielle Pilar Clealand, Ph.D.
Danielle Pilar Clealand is assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Clealand specializes in racial politics in Cuba and more broadly her research focuses on comparative racial politics, identity, nationalism, group consciousness, and racial attitudes throughout the Americas. She works on issues of race and racism both within Cuba and throughout the Diaspora. ?Currently, she?is finishing her book manuscript,?Uncovering the Power of Race: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness in Contemporary Cuba.?The book?examines the presence of racism and racial inequality in Cuba as well as the ways in which government ideology treats the issue.
danielle.clealand@fiu.edu
305-348-3295 (Office)
THE ECONOMY/ THE LAW
Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, Ph.D.
Economics Professor Jorge Salazar-Carrillo is director of FIU?s Center of Economic Research. Salazar is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a consultant for both the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). His areas of interest include economic integration, international trade and finance and labor economics. He has conducted research on Venezuela?s oil sector and Latin America?s capital markets in the 1990s.
Jorge.Salazar-Carrillo@fiu.edu
305-348-3283 (Office)
Jose Gabilondo
Law Professor Jose Gabilondo, has done research on the Cuban Central Bank, expropriation claims settlements, and foreign investment in Cuba. Gabilondo has conducted field research in Havana and Santiago, Cuba. He has also worked with the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and has studied the impact of the research travel bans to Cuba.
Jose.Gabilondo@fiu.edu
305- 348-5943 (Office)
305-710-5656 (Mobile)
MEDIA IN CUBA
John Virtue
John Virtue is the director of the International Media Center. One of the center?s projects trains independent journalists in Cuba to understand news judgment, journalistic ethics and how to write for an external audience. Virtue has taught some of these courses on the island itself and worked with several independent journalists who since have been jailed for practicing their profession. Virtue is a former foreign correspondent for United Press International in Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico. Before joining FIU in 1989, Virtue was executive editor of El Mundo newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
John.Virtue@fiu.edu
305-919-5544 (Office)
305-865-2399 (Home)
ART AND ART HISTORY
Juan Mart?nez
Art Historian Juan Mart?nez is the director of the Art and Art History Department. In the fall of 2007 he will publish a book on modern Cuban painter Carlos Enriquez. Mart?nez is currently working on Cuban-American artist Maria Brito. In addition to his numerous published works, he has been the curator of Cuban art exhibits at Lowe Art Museum and the Wolfson Art Gallery. Mart?nez received his M.A. and Ph.D in Art History from Florida State University where his dissertation was titled ?Cuban Art and National Identity, The vanguardia Painters: 1920 ? 1940?s.?
martinej@fiu.edu
305-348-3539 (Office)
URBAN ISSUES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Grenville Draper, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment, Grenville Draper, has studied the geology and tectonics of the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, for more than 30 years. His research focuses on how movements of that part of the Earth?s crust relates to the development of mineral resources and seismic activity. Draper made his first visit to Cuba in 1989 and helped organize the 13th Caribbean Geological conference that was held in Pinar del Rio in 1992. As the leader of the International Geological Correlation Project 364, he facilitated international field workshops, some of which were in Cuba, involving scientists from the Caribbean. Draper is the author of more than 100 articles and books.
draper@fiu.edu
305-348-3087 (Office)
Jennifer Gebelein, Ph.D.
Geographer Jennifer Gebelein is an affiliated research professor in the Department of Earth and Environment. Since 2002 the Cuban Research Institute has awarded her three grants to travel to Cuba to conduct her research assessing land cover and land use change through time. She conducts analyses on how various factors like deforestation, logging and mining activities are impacting the environment on the island. Her most recent research culminated in the book publication titled: ?A Geographic Perspective of Cuban Landscapes,? published by Springer Press in December 2012.? The book describes the historical background of Cuban land cover change, the causal factors of that change, governmental organization and control over environmental policies, establishment and description of current protected areas, Cuba?s technological development as it relates to landscape change, and the future of Cuba?s lands and coastal waters. ?For more about Dr. Gebelein and her research please visit her website.
gebelein@fiu.edu
305-348-1859 (Office)
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