Program Overview

The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) Short-Term Research Grants provide support to U.S.-based graduate students (master’s and doctoral), faculty members, and U.S.-based independent scholars for research at the CHC at the University of Miami Libraries. These grants will help cover travel and accommodation costs for visits lasting 1-3 weeks, facilitating access to the CHC’s unique resources and fostering scholarship in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora studies.

The Cuban Heritage Collection Short-Term Research Grants aim to advance scholarly research by providing access to our extensive and unique primary source materials. By supporting researchers from diverse disciplines, we seek to foster innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora studies. Applicants with comparative projects are welcome to apply as well.

Funding for this program is provided by the Wilbur L. and Jean L. Morrison Endowment for Cuban Studies at the University of Miami.

CHC Short-Term Grant Recipients 2026-2027

• Katherine Bisquet Rodríguez
  Independent Scholar
  “Poemas escritos en la cárcel. Desde los primeros presos de Castro hasta la Primavera Negra”
• Tatyana Carillo, M.A., M.Phil
  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
  “The Dancer on the Screen: Broadcasting Contemporary Ballet in the USSR, Cuba, and USA in 1967”
• Elizabeth Cerejido, Ph.D.
  Independent Scholar
  “Cuban American Art in the Age of HIV-AIDS: Luis Medina and the Silences of the Latinx Queer Underground”
• Alena Coleman
  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Princeton University
  “Blackness and Bookmaking in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean”
• Ahmed Correa, Ph.D.
  Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento
  “Precarious Escapes, Anti-Imperialist Trench, and the Grammar of the Border at Guantánamo”
• Aisha Cort, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American Studies, Bucknell University
  “The Lost Girl of Havana: Operation Pedro Pan and 20th century Afro-Cuban Cultural Memory and Diaspora”
• René Esparza, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
  “Exiled and Excludable: Queer and Trans Cuban Refugees and the Making of U.S. Sexual Citizenship”
• Isabel James, M.A.
  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  “Marine Conservation Across Fluid Borders: Diving into the Interconnected US-Cuba Seascape”