2025 Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

2022 M.Phil. Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

2006 M.A. in Social Sciences (MAPSS), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2005 B.A. Latin American Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.

2004 El Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística, La Habana, Cuba.

My work aims to redress the historical silence in Cuban and American historiography through research about the achievements of Marcos Llerena, an Afro-Cuban cigar maker from Havana, and leader in the Sociedad Unión Martí Maceo and Club Cubano Inter-Americano (CCI). Afro-Cubans formed the Unión Martí-Maceo Society in 1904 in Ybor City, a historic tobacco district of Tampa, after they were expelled from the Círculo Cubano in 1899 due to racial segregation laws and social pressures that racially divided Cuban émigrés living in the South. photo credit: Club Cubano Inter-Americano Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY.

Peer-reviewed articles

“Sueños, espiritus y memoria en la poesía negra de Eusebia Cosme” {Dreams, Spirits and Memory in Eusebia Cosme’s Black Poetry} Isla Diseminada Hypermedia Editorial 2022 editors Justo Planas, Alex Werner and Jorge Avila.

“Rethinking Afrolatinidad: African-Americans, Afro-Latinos, Latinos and Afro-Cuban Religions in Chicago” Vol.26 No.1 Spring 2007 Afro-Hispanic Review, Vanderbilt University

Art reviews and public writing:

“The Art of Ancestral Conjure” Abigail DeVille: In The Fullness of Time catalogue, Bowdoin College Musuem of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 2024

“The Art of Ancestral Conjure” Abigail DeVille Bronx Heavens Exhibit, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY October 2022

“The Voice and the Veil” Never Normal Again Anthology, The Hoodoisie Chicago, IL, July 2021

“Eusebia Cosme and El Cobre: Performing Sacred Histories” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, March 2021

Afro Blue, un homenaje: Room of My Own, Howlround Theater Commons, http://howlround.com/afro-blue-un-homenaje-a-room-of-my-own#disqus_thread April 11th, 2017

Performance Ecologies, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2024-present

Music of Latin America, Music Department LaGuardia Community College, 2020-22

Critical Thinking, Philosophy Department LaGuardia Community College, 2019-2020

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Social Sciences Department LaGuardia Community College, 2020-21

I participated in theNational Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa led by Dr. James Lopez and Dr. Denis Rey (2023). I was able to work with a multidisciplinary cohort of scholars and conduct archival research about the Unión Martí Maceo Society during the Center’s program “The Immigrant Communities of Florida and José Martí in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century”.