Department of History/DM 397
Florida International University
Miami, FL33199
Current
Positions
Assistant
Professor: Latin American History and Cuban Studies, Florida International
University, Miami, FL
Book
Review Co-Editor, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos,
January 1998-present.
Publications
Military
Reform and the Social Transformation of
Eighteenth-Century Cuba. Forthcoming, University of Florida Press,
2001.
"'Señoras
en sus clases no ordinarias:' Widows, Wives, and Orphans in Havana
in the Eighteenth Century." in Señoras...no ordinarias, Cuban
Women in Historical Perspective ,. K. Lynn Stoner and Sherry Johnson,
eds. in process [awaiting receipt of three of twelve essays].
"Cuba
in Florida from Precolumbian Times to the Present," Museum Exhibit and
Interactive CD Rom Text, Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences, in
process (Submitted September 2000).
"Contributions,"
Cuba: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Luis Martínez-Fernández,
ed., Forthcoming, Oryx Press.
"The
Gateway to El Dorado: Commerce, Climate, and the Maritime Connections among
Florida, Cuba, and the Atlantic World, 1784-1800," Under editorial consideration,
Florida Historical Quarterly, Fall 2000.
"Casualties
of Peace: Tracing the Historic Roots of the Cuban Diaspora, 1763-1804,"
Colonial Latin American Historical Review, forthcoming (Accepted
July 2000).
"Legacies
of Contact; Dreams of Empire,"Myths
and Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean
Miami: Jay I. Kislak Foundation Inc., 1999.
"The
Rise and Fall of Creole Participation in the Cuban Slave Trade, 1789-1796,"
Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, 30 (March 1999),
52-75.
"'La
Guerra Contra los Habitantes de los Arrabales': Changing Patterns of
Land Use and Land Tenancy in and around Havana, 1763-1800," Hispanic
American Historical Review (May 1997), 181-209.
"Marriage
and Community Construction in St. Augustine, 1784-1804," Florida's Heritage
of Diversity: Essays in Honor of Samuel Proctor, Mark D. Greenberg,
William Warren Rogers, and Canter Brown Jr., eds. (Tallahassee: Sentry
Press, 1997) 1-13.
"Contributions:
Cuban and Florida Fortifications," in The Encyclopedia of the Colonial
Wars of America, Allan Gallay, ed. (New York: Garland Press, 1996)
"Contributions:
Florida's Native/European Relations," in The Encyclopedia of the Colonial
Wars of America, Allan Gallay, ed. (New York: Garland Press, 1996)
"The
East Florida Papers, 1784-1821," Florida Historical Quarterly 71:1
(July 1992), 63-69.
"The
Spanish St. Augustine Community, 1784-1795: A Reevaluation," Florida
Historical Quarterly 68:1 (July 1989), 27-54.
Works
in Progress (in order of expected publication)
"El
Seno Pequeño: Forging Social Linkages among Cuba, Mexico, and
Florida after 1763," in preparation for inclusion in México
y el Caribea travésde los siglos
(XVI-XIX), (Tentative working title), Laura Muñoz,
ed. deadline, November 2000.
"Señoras...no
ordinarias:" Cuban Women
in HistoricalPerspective, K. Lynn Stoner and Sherry Johnson,
eds. Approximately twelve essays on women and history in Cuba from colonial
times to the 20th centuries. This project is essentially complete and is
ready to be offered to a publisher at the Cuban Research Conference in
October 2000.
Mercantilism
Meets Mother Nature: Climate, Colonialism, Conflict, and Change in the
Late Eighteenth-Century Caribbean.
A study of the social, political, and economic effects of hurricanes in
eighteenth-century Cuba and the Caribbean. Funded by a National Endowment
for the Humanities Extending the Reach Research Grant, Academic Year 2001-2002,
which will result in a first-draft placed for publication consideration
by August 2002.
"Challenging
the 'Kleptocracy:' Climate, Colonialism, and Conflict in Cuba, 1763-1796."
In preparation for inclusion in HurricanesThrough Time, Edgardo
Krebs and Sherry Johnson, eds., work in progress.
Hurricanes
Through Time, Edgardo Krebs and Sherry Johnson, eds. An in-progress,
multidisciplinary compilation of essays on hurricanes resulting from the
Smithsonian Institution Conference, "Hurricanes Through Time," in February
2000. In collaboration with Edgardo Krebs, Senior Research Fellow, Center
for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Future
Research: "Pirates in the Stream: Rebellion, Resistance, and Social Banditry
in Cuba 1815-1837." Inspired by a ship's journal in the Massachusetts Historical
Society, this new research focuses on piracy as social banditry in Cuba
from approximately 1816 through the 1830s. This project will examine how
the Cuban people, alienated from an increasingly repressive government,
engaged in extralegal activities designed to strike at the Spanish regime.
In doing so, they incurred the wrath of the United States Navy (newly established
at Key West) in the form of unprecedented punitive incursions onto the
island.
Book
Reviews
"Review
of Luis Martínez-Fernández's Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean:
The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana,
in Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, forthcoming 2001.
"Review
of Celia María Parcero Torres's La pérdida de la Habana
y las reformas borbónicas en Cuba, 1760-1773, in The
Americas, forthcoming.
"Review
of Otto Olivera's Viajeros en Cuba, 1800-1850,
in Hispanic American Historical Review (February 2000).
"Review
of Peter Carr's Censos, padrones y matriculas de la población
de Cuba, Siglos 16, 17, y 18. H-Net Book Reviews, H-Net Humanities
and Social Sciences Online, July 1998.
"Review
of Howard Johnson's
The Bahamas From Slavery
to Servitude, 1783-1933 in the Journal of
Southwest Georgia History (Fall 1998).
"Review
of Amy Turner Bushnell's Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System
for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida in Pacific
Historical Review(1997),
427-28.
"Review
of María Cristina García's Havana USA: Cuban
Exiles and Cuban Americans in South
Florida, 1959-1994, in Journal of Southern History
(May 1997), 449-50.
"Review
of Andrew L. Knaut's The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance
in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico," in The Historian (Spring
1997), 659-60.
"Review
of Josep Opatrny's Cuba: algunos problemas de su historia in Hispanic
American Historical Review (February 1997), 118-19.
"Review
of Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective.
Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, and Barbara Bailey, eds.,in
Hispanic American Historical Review (November 1996), 845-46.
"Review
of Jerald T. Milanich's Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe,"
in Hispanic American Historical Review (August 1996), 566-67.
"Review
of Light Townsend Cummins's Spanish Observers and the American Revolution,
1775-1783," Florida Historical Quarterly (April 1993), 499-501.
Papers
Presented
"The
Social Consequences of Hurricanes in the Caribbean," Paper presented at
the Smithsonian Institution Panel Discussion, "Hurricanes Through Time,"February
2000.
"Mercantilism
Meets Mother Nature: The Social Consequences of Hurricanes in Florida and
Cuba in the 1780s and the 1790s." Paper presented at the First Allen Morris
Biennial Conference, Department of History, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL, February 2000.
"Legislation,
Love, and Lechery in the Caribbean: A Tale of Three Cities, 1763-1808."
Paper presented at the Association of Caribbean Historians Meeting, Havana,
Cuba, April 1999.
"Militarization
and the Marginal Sectors: Redefining the Boundaries of Prosperity in Havana,
1763-1796." Paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History,
American Historical Association Meeting, January 1999.
"'Señoras
en sus clases no ordinarias:' Military Wives, Widows, and Orphans in
Havana, 1763-1796," Paper presented at the Association of Caribbean Historians
Meeting, April 1998.
"The
Uneasy Coexistence between Gendered History and Machismo: Teaching
Latin American Women's History," paper presented at "Research and Teaching
Gendered History: Regional Variations," for the Women's Studies Center
and the Department of History Roundtable, Florida International University,
March 1998.
"Imperial
Policy, Local Agency, and Climatic Instability: Factors in Creole Participation
in the Cuban Slave Trade, 1789-1796," Paper presented at the Faculty Research
Series, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University,
Miami, FL, January 1998.
"Research
in Cuba During the Special Period, 1992-1997: Challenges and Changes,"
Paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, American Historical
Association Meeting, January 1998.
"Reflexiones
del exterior en la historia de la mujer en Cuba," Invited paper by the
Instituto de Historia de Cuba and Unión de Escritores y Artistas
Cubanos (UNEAC), Havana, Cuba, December 1997.
"La
Criolla: The Key to the Formation of Cuban Creole Society, 1763-1800,"
Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, April
1997
"Imperial
Policy and Local Agency: Creole Participation in the Cuban Slave Trade,
1789-1796," Paper presented at theAssociation
of Caribbean Historians Meeting, April 1997.
"'Good
for Farmers but Not for Soldiers:' Military Communities and Population
Schemes in Cuba, 1763-1800" Paper presented at the Conference on Latin
American History, American Historical Association Meeting, January 1997.
"Diversity
in the University: Origins and Accomplishments," Federal Hispanic Women's
Training Session, McDill AFB, Tampa, FL, September 1996 (postponed).
"Propiedad
y uso de la tierra en La Habana (Siglo XVIII)," invited presentation (mesa
redonda), Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, Sevilla, Spain, May 1996.
"The
Dimension of Spatial Change in Post-1763 Havana." Invited paper by the
Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Havana, Cuba, March 1996. (Postponed indefinitely).
"La
mujer en la historia de Cuba: El estado de la disciplina," Panel Participant,
Instituto Jacques Maritain de Cuba, North-South Center, University of Miami,
Miami, FL, February 1996.
"Havana's
Society in the Eighteenth Century," Paper presented in the Latin American
and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, March
1995.
"'To
Act in All Matters in My Stead:' Female Economic Autonomy in Spanish Florida,
1784-1815," Paper presented at the Third Southern Conference on Women's
History, Rice University, Houston, TX,June
1994
"Bridging
the Gap: Illegitimacy, Ethnicity, and Extra-marital Relations in Florida
1784-1815," Paper presented at the Florida Women's Studies Conference,
Gainesville, FL, April 1993
"'Of
the Same Quality, Condition, and Circumstances:' Criollas and the
Transformation of Creole Society in St. Augustine, 1784-1815," Paper presented
at the Tercer Congreso de la Creación Femenina, Mayagüez, PR,
November 1992
"Marriage
and Law in Colonial St. Augustine, 1784-1804," Paper presented at the Second
Southern Conference on Women's History, Duke University, Durham, NC, June
1991.
"Research
Potential for Family History in the East Florida Papers," Paper presented
at the Second Annual Borderlands Colloquium, University of Florida, January
1991
"Searching
for St. Augustine's Elites," Paper presented at the First Annual Borderlands
Colloquium, University of Florida, December 1989
Fellowships
and Awards
John
D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation Award, Cuban Research Institute,
Florida International University, Academic Year 2001-2002.
National
Endowment for the Humanities Extending the Reach Research Grant, Academic
Year 2001-2002.
Florida
International University Foundation/Provost's Office Research Award, Florida
International University, Summer 2000.
Library
Travel Grant to Collections, Center for Latin American Studies, University
of Florida, Summer 1999.
Lydia
Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies, Conference on Latin American
History, Summer 1999.
Faculty
Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International
University, Summer 1998.
U.S.
Department of Education Title VI Award, Latin American and Caribbean Center,
Florida International University, April 1998.
Faculty
Travel Award, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University,
December 1997.
U.S.
Department of Education Title VI Award, Latin American and Caribbean Center,
Florida International University, April 1997.
Jay
I. Kislak Foundation Award, Best Dissertation or Monograph in History or
Anthropology, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, July 1996.
University
Representative, Faculty Exchange Program, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos
(Seville, Spain) and Department of History, Florida International University,
May-June 1996.
Florida
International University Foundation/Provost's Office Research Award, Florida
International University, Summer 1996.
Faculty
Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International
University, Spring 1996 (declined)
Andrew
P. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies, Florida International University, Miami,
FL, 1995
A.
Curtis Wilgus Fellowship in Caribbean Studies, Center for Latin American
Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1992
Research/Travel
Grant, Institute for Early Contact Period Studies, University of Florida,
1991
Linda
Vance Fellowship in Women's History, Department of History, University
of Florida, 1990
Research
Grant, Department of History, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL,
1989
Scholarship,
Universidad de Sevilla, Curso de Verano en la Rábida, Seville, Spain,
1987
Field
Research Experience
Boston,
MA, August 2000, Massachusetts Historical Society; Peabody-Essex Museum
(Salem, MA); Houghton Library (José Escoto Collection), Harvard
University.
Gainesville,
FL, 2000, University of Florida, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History,
Latin American Collection, Special Collections.
Washington,
DC, 1999, Library of Congress, Hispanic Division, Manuscript Division,
Map Division, Rare Book Room.
Gainesville,
FL, 1999, University of Florida, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History,
Latin American Collection, Special Collections.
Miami,
FL, 1999, Cuban Heritage Collection, Otto G. Richter Library, University
of Miami.
Madrid,
Spain, 1999, Biblioteca Nacional de España
Seville,
Spain, 1999, Archivo General de Indias, Biblioteca de la Escuela de Estudios
Hispano-Americanos.
Washington,
DC, 1998, Library of Congress, Hispanic Division, Manuscript Division,
Map Division; National Archives.
Seville,
Spain, 1998, Archivo General de Indias, Biblioteca de la Escuela de Estudios
Hispano-Americanos.
Havana,
Cuba, 1997, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí.
Seville,
Spain, 1996, Archivo General de Indias, Biblioteca de la Escuela de Estudios
Hispano-Americanos, Archivos de various presidios de España.
Havana,
Cuba, 1995, Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí,
University of Havana.
Havana,
Cuba, 1993. Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Archdiocese of Havana, Archbishop's
& Parochial Archives, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí.
San
Juan, Puerto Rico, 1992. Diocese of San Juan, Parochial Archives
Havana,
Cuba, 1992. Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Archdiocese of Havana, Archbishop's
& Parochial Archives.
Washington,
DC, 1991. Library of Congress, East Florida Papers, Hispanic Collection,
Map Collection.
Pensacola,
FL, 1990, University of West Florida, Panton, Leslie Papers.
Seville,
Spain, 1987. Archivo General de Indias.
Ongoing
Professional Service
Cuban
Research Institute Advisory Board, 1995-present
Cuban
Research Institute, Cubanand Cuban
American Studies Certificate Committee, 1996-present
Advisory
Board, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, January
1998-present.
Latin
American and Caribbean Center Advisory Board, 1995-present
Advisory
Board, FIU-Jay I. Kislak Foundation Endowment Project, 1998-present.
Women's
Studies Center, 1995-present
Research
Associate, Historic St. Augustine Research Institute at Flagler College,
1999-present.
Advisory
Board, Florida Oral History Consortium, 1998-present.
Professional
Research & Training Experience
Advisory
Board, "Cuba in Florida from Precolumbian Times to the Present," Daytona
Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences (funded by a Florida Council for the
Humanities Grant), in process.
Lydia
Cabrera Award in Cuban Historical Studies Selection Committee, Conference
on Latin American History, Summer 2000.
Commentator/Participant,
Library of Congress Caribbean Workshop, Washington, DC, April 2000.
Panel
Organizer, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami, FL, March
2000
Panel
Organizer, Alan Morris Conference on Florida and the Atlantic World, Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL, February 2000
Advisory
Board, FIU-Jay I. Kislak Foundation Digitalized Library Project,1998-1999.
Panel
organizer, Marriage Strategies and the Forging of Identity in the Latin
Caribbean," Association of Caribbean Historians' Conference, Havana, Cuba,
April 1999.
Panel
organizer, "Gendered, Marginal, and Alternate Visions of Cuban History,
18th to 20th Centuries," Conference on Latin American History, Washington,
DC, January 1999
Participant,
ACLS/SSRC Summer Workshop, ACLS/SSRC Cuba Working Group, Washington, DC,
July-August 1998.
Roundtable/symposium
organizer, "Research and Teaching Gendered History: Regional Variations,"
for the Women's Studies Center and the Department of History, FIU, March
1998.
Workshop
Leader, Dade-Monroe County Teacher Education Center, History of Women in
Latin America (Women as Historical Actors), February-March 1998.
Session
chair/commentator, Colonial Cuban History, Cuban Studies Conference, Cuban
Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL,October
1997.
Book
Review Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, American Historical
Association, July 1996-June 1997
Chair,
Jay I. Kislak Foundation Prizes Committee, Florida International University,
Miami, FL, Academic years 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999.
Seminar
Leader, Jamaica to Jacksonville:Explorations
in the Historic Linkages between Florida and the Caribbean, Florida Humanities
Council, Summer Seminar for Florida Teachers, Tampa, FL, June-July 1997.
Guest
Lecture, Coral Gables High School International Baccalaureate Program,
Slavery in the Americas, April 1997.
Consultant,
Bennett & Associates, Cross-Cultural Training Program, Chicago, IL,
April 1996, January 1997.
Guest
Lecture, Honors Program IDH 1001 Semester Project, Oral History as Validation
of the Historical Record, The Migrant/Immigrant Experience: Coming to South
Florida, September 1996.
Co-Author,
Funding Proposal to the Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Department of History,
Florida International University, March 1996.
Member,
Cuban Research Institute Advisory Board, Cuban Research Institute, Florida
International University, Miami, FL, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999.
Member,
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Search Committee, Cuban Research Institute,
Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1997-1998.
Member,
Charlton W. Tebeau Prize in Children's Literature Committee, Florida Historical
Society, 1995-1996
Research
Associate, Latin American Manuscripts Project, Department of History, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Fall 1994
Graduate
Representative, Latin American History Search Committee, Department of
History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Academic year 1992-1993.
Research
Assistant to Dr. Murdo J. MacLeod, Department of History, University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL, Academic years 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993.
Editorial
Assistant to Dr. Samuel Proctor, editor, Florida Historical Quarterly,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Academic year 1987-1988.
Graduate
Assistant (manuscript/oral editor) to Dr. Samuel Proctor, Oral History
Project, Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,
Academic year 1986-1987.
Education
Ph.D.
Major: Latin American History; Minor: Historical Archaeology; Anthropology,
University of Florida, 1995
Master
of Arts: Latin American History, University of Florida, 1989
Bachelor
of Arts: History, University of Florida, 1985
Certification:
Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 1985