Marifeli Pérez-Stable is a professor of sociology at Miami’s Florida
International University and vice president for democratic governance at the
Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC.
She is an editorial contributor to the Miami Herald; her column on Latin American issues appears every
other Thursday. Tiempos del Mundo publishes her biweekly column. Her opinion pieces have appeared in El País (Spain), El Clarín (Argentina), Excelsior
(Mexico), El Nuevo Herald, The New Republic, and The Nation. She is also an editorial contributor to the
Real Instituto Elcano (a Madrid-based foreign-policy think tank), InfoLatam (Spain), and Nueva Mayoría (Argentina). She has been interviewed on National Public
Radio, PBS (Miami), CNN, NBC, RTE (Ireland), Imagen Informativa (Mexico),
Andrés Oppenheimer Presenta, the Voice of America, Radio Marti, CNN en Español,
Radio Nacional de España, Radio América (Argentina), Estado de Sao Paulo, and Le
Monde
Dr. Pérez-Stable was a Fulbright fellow at the
Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid (2001) and a visiting fellow
at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute
for International Relations (2003). She
is the author of The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy
(Oxford University Press, 1993; 2nd edition 1999); a Spanish-language edition
was published by Editorial Colibrí (Madrid, 1998). She edited the forthcoming reader, “Looking
Forward: Cuba’s Pending Transition in
Comparative Perspective,” to be published by the University of Notre Dame
Press. In November 2006, Editorial
Colibrí will issue it in Spanish.
Dr. Pérez-Stable chaired the Task Force on Memory,
Truth, and Justice which published the report, Cuban National Reconciliation, in April 2003 (http://memoria.fiu.edu). She is the director of “National Dialogues on
Democracy in Latin America,” a project sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue
with the cooperation of the Organization of American States. Her works in progress include a political
biography of Fidel Castro (Polity Press) and “Intimate Enemies: the United
States and Cuba after the Cold War” (Routledge).