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 152 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 Goizueta Foundaion Graduate Fellowship applications are now closed.

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

2025-2026 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellows

Pre-Prospectus Fellows

Bryan Guichardo
CUNY Graduate Center | History
Uplifting the New Cuban Republic During and After Exile: Rafael Serra, African American Political Thought, and the Plight for Racial Democracy and Afro-Cuban Equality (1881-1912)

Allyson Pérez
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Department of American Culture
A Las Ventanitas, Valientes, Corred: Community, Restaurants, and Politics in Cuban America

Claudia Suarez
University of Florida | History
Forthcoming dissertation aims to explore the migration of Cuban and Soviet Dancers during the Cold War, focusing on cultural exchanges and acts of defection

Massiel Medina
University of Miami | Modern Languages and Literatures
Apariciones Caribeñas: Transnational Cartographic Representations

Estibaliz Santamaría Cadaval
Florida International University | Modern Languages
La Gallega: Galician Women in Cuba. Cultural agents and transformative figures in society

 

Research Fellows

Jess Cruz
Yale University | History
‘Right-Wing Legends:’ The cultural and diasporic origins of the Latin American Right (1981-2010)

Mariamnny Contreras Fernandez
Georgetown University | Spanish and Portuguese
Medical Letters: The Influence of 19th Century Narrative and Press on Racial Construction Around the Idea of the Doctor and Medicine in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil

Hélio Augusto de Souza Alves
University of Florida | History
I am the Revolution: Reforms, Reversals, and Contradictions in Communist Cuba, 1970- 1994

Daniel Delgado
University of Southern California | History
From the Cane Fields to the Streets: Caribbean Working-Class Unity and the Revolution of 1933 in Cuba

Arturo Gonzalez
University of Miami | History
Cuban Consuls, Cuban Colonies: Transnational Statecraft and Émigré Nationalisms in the Era of the Cuban Republic, 1898–1961

Maytté Hernández Lorenzo
University of Miami | Modern Languages and Literatures
Archipelagos of the Expanded Scene and Convivial Citizenship in the Hispanophone Caribbean

Daria Kozhanova
Duke University | Romance Studies
Intertwined Futures: Italy and Ideas of Cuban Nationhood

 

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