The Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program supports doctoral research at the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC). The goal of the Goizueta Graduate Fellowships is to engage emerging scholars with the materials available in the CHC and thus contribute to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban and Cuban diaspora studies. Applicants with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Cuba and/or its diaspora, in any time period, are encouraged to apply. Applicants with comparative projects are welcome to apply as well.

Launched in 2010 with a generous grant from The Goizueta Foundation, the program has grown to support the research of 164 emerging scholars from over 50 universities. In 2015 the Foundation made a $1 million gift to endow the program as part of the University’s Momentum2 campaign, allowing the CHC to continue awarding research funding to doctoral students and candidates enrolled in universities across the United States.

Call for Applications

The 2026-2027 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship application period is closed. It will reopen in fall 2026.

For application criteria and instructions, please visit the How to Apply page.

Questions about the fellowships program or application instructions should be directed to chc@miami.edu.

2026-2027 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellows

Pre-Prospectus Fellows

Parker Blair
Northwestern University | Religious Studies
Season Till the Ancestors Say Stop: Afro-Atlantic Women's Devotional Labor and the Chronopolitics of Perishability

Karla Ochoa Verdecia
University of Pennsylvania | History of Art
From Private to Public: Cuban Art Collections and its Legitimization within the American Canon

Laura Marrero Felipe
Florida International University | Modern Languages
The Dark Night of Exile: José Martí’s Dos patrias and the Genesis of an Aesthetic

Lydia Millhon
University of California, Berkeley | Spanish and Portuguese
Transnational Networks from the Caribbean and Beyond: Nicolás Guillén and Lydia Cabrera in Brazil

Jack Riordan
The University of Texas at Austin | Spanish & Portuguese
Guantánamo as Province: Regino Boti and the Archival Foundations of La Espera (2023)

Research Fellows

Joryán Hernández
University of Notre Dame | Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Cubanos Embarcados: Santería as a Locus of Healing from the Traumas of Displacement

Massiel Medina
University of Miami | Modern Languages & Literatures
Cartografia móvil: Hispanic Caribbean, Revisited

Michele Mileusnich
Florida International University | Modern Languages
Food and Cuban National Identity in the United States: From Island to Exile

Elizabeth Mirabal Llorens
University of Virginia | Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Nostalgia and the Intimacies of Exile: Rethinking the Caribbean and Latino Nineteenth Century Through Private Writing

Yoán Moreno
University of Miami | Modern Languages & Literatures
The Hermeneutic of Polyrhythm: Drumming and Troping in the Literature of Creolization

Keith Richards
Tulane University | History
Commerce and Colonialism: Eastern Cuba and the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

Rubens Riol
Princeton University | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Forms of Friction: Power, Bodies and Mass Politics in Cuba (1959-2021)

Camila Sanhueza
University of California, Irvine | History
Legitimate Familes: Children's and Women's Right in Socialist Chile and Cuba