CHC Short-Term Grant Recipients 2025-2026

* Unless otherwise noted, funding for this program is provided by the Wilbur L. and Jean L. Morrison Endowment for Cuban Studies at the University of Miami. *

• Bonnie Lucero, Ph.D.
  Neville G. Penrose Chair of Latin American Studies and History and Associate Professor | Department of HIstory, Texas Christian University
  “The Land of the Skinny Cow: Beef Politics in Cuba, 1927-1963”
• Theodore (Ted) Henken, Ph.D. (Funding provided by Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection)
  Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthopology, Baruch College, CUNY
  “Saturn’s Children: The 60-Year Struggle to Reestablish a Free Press in Cuba”
• Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, University of Connecticut
  “The Relational History of Cuban Aimé Césaire”
• Margaret Arbanas, M.Arch.
  Architect and Faculty Member, School of Visual Arts
  “Cuba: Histories of the Future”
• Claudia Lonkin, M.A.
  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
  “State-Produced Music between Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1953-1989”
• Daniel Pedreira, Ph.D.
  Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
  “Archival Research for Biography of Cuban Statesman Dr. Manuel Antonio (Tony) de Varona Loredo”
• Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Funding provided by Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection)
  Author, Journalist, and Co-Founder and Director of El Estornudo
  “Ahora no conviene. Los cuerpos de la censura.”
• Librada González Fernández (Funding provided by Cuban Heritage Collection Gift Fund)
  Archivist and Founder | Archivo Cubanecuir
  “A History of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Transformistas in Cuba”