Frank A. Guridy

Biography

Frank Guridy is the author of Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), which won the 2009-11 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the 2011 Wesley-Logan Book Prize conferred by the American Historical Association in January. He is also the co-editor of Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America (NYU Press, 2010). He has published essays in the Radical History Review, Caribbean Studies, Social Text, and Cuban Studies. He is currently at work on two projects: a history of Afro-Puerto Ricans from emancipation through the early years of U.S. colonial rule and a study of race, gender, and sport in a history of the Houston Astrodome.

Research interests

Caribbean/African Diaspora History with an emphasis on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Transnational History, Sport History

Courses taught

The African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, Racialization in Hemispheric America, Re-imagining Cuba, Afro-Latin America

Awards/Honors

Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award (2009-10); Institute for Historical Studies Fellow (2008-09); Postdoctoral Fellow, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2002-03. Winner of the 2011 Elsa Goveia Book Prize, Association of Caribbean Historians and the 2011 Wesley-Logan Prize, Association of American Historical Association.