University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Alejandro de la Fuente

UCIS Research Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1996)

3905 WWPH
412-648-7468
fuente2@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Field(s)

Latin American and Caribbean History
Comparative Slavery and Race Relations
Atlantic History

 

Teaching

Modern Latin America
Revolutions in Latin America
History of the Caribbean
Premodern Slavery
Selected Publications

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century ( University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

Editor, "'Su único derecho': los esclavos y la ley," Debate y Perspectivas 4 (Madrid: Fundación Mapfre-Tavera, 2004).

A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001 (Spanish ed. Madrid 2001)

"The New Afro-Cuban Cultural Movement and the Debate on Race in Contemporary Cuba ," Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (November 2008), 697-720.

"Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba : Coartación and Papel," Hispanic American Historical Review 87:4 (November 2007), 659-92.

 

Honors/Awards

Lydia Cabrera Award, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) (2007)

Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award (2006)

Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for A Nation for All (2003).

NSF, Program of Law and Social Science, Research Grant (2002-03).

NEH Fellowship (2002)

Postdoctoral Grant, United States Institute of Peace (1999)

 

Project(s)

I am currently working on two projects: one is a book on slavery and the law in colonial Cuba; the other is a study of the Afro-Cuban cultural movement in contemporary Cuba.