Lillian Guerra

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Lillian Guerra is a Professor of Cuban and Caribbean history and the Director of the Cuba Program at the University of Florida. A widely published author and researcher, she is considered one of the leading Cuban history experts in the world.

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Early life

Guerra is the daughter of Cuban exile parents, who fled the Communist dictatorship [1] and immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1965. [2] She was born in New York City, [2] and as a young child was raised in Marion, Kansas. [3] Her family subsequently moved to Miami, Florida when Guerra was fourteen years old. [4] She has described herself in a New York Times article as "a Cuban born in New York and raised in Kansas and Miami." [5]

Education

Guerra attended Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove, Florida [6] and subsequently received her B.A. from Dartmouth College (1992), [7] and her Ph. D in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Latin American Studies 2000). [8] [7] Guerra never graduated from High School, as she left it in her junior year to start attending Dartmouth. [9] [6]

Work

Guerra is a widely published history researcher and author, whose work has a focus on Cuban history. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Guerra has taught Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American history at Bates College (2000-2004), Yale University (2004-2010) and currently since 2010 at the University of Florida. [11] [16] As a public lecturer, she has given many public lectures and keynote speeches, most notably at Harvard University, Stanford University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University Law School, Georgetown University, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile, the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation in Hull, England, and many others. [10] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Awards

Books

Media

Guerra has served as advisor and lead scholar for films and documentaries such as American Comandante: Cuba’s Most Unlikely Revolutionary (PBS), Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution (American Public Television), and others. [4] [26] [27] Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution was awarded an Emmy in 2016 for best documentary. [28] [29] She also often appears in television and magazine or newspaper stories requiring expert opinions on Cuban and Cuban-American issues. [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [5] [35]

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  2. 1 2 "Hispanic Heritage Month Faculty Spotlight Dr. Lillian Guerra". www.latam.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  3. ↑ "Why I Am a Historian | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  4. 1 2 3 "Keynote Speaker Announced for 2019 ASCE Conference". ASCE. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  5. 1 2 Guerra, Lillian (2020-02-17). "Opinion | Fear and Loathing in Havana and Miami". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  6. 1 2 "Alumni Bios – From Dartmouth Alum to Faculty of Color: How the Liberal Arts Help Diversify the Profession". sites.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "UF Experts - Lilliam Guerra". University of Florida. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  10. 1 2 3 "Keynote Speaker Announced for 2019 ASCE Conference". ASCE. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  11. 1 2 3 "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lillian Guerra" . Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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  13. ↑ "American Latino Theme Study: New Latinos (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  14. ↑ Week, NPR Source of the (2017-01-02). "Lillian Guerra, Ph.D." Source of the Week. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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  23. ↑ Doerfler, Andrew (2020-01-17). "CLAS Faculty Receive National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships". University of Florida. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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  27. ↑ "A good program for "fans" of Castro to watch was on PBS recently ... - Democratic Underground". www.democraticunderground.com. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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  30. ↑ "This is why Sanders' comments on Cuba's education, health care have caused outrage in Florida". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
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  34. ↑ "Is Cuban Cuisine Disappearing in Cuba?". KCRW. 2013-11-20. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
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