Faculty

Guridy, Frank
Assistant Professor

Office: GAR 0.116
Office Hours: Spring 2008: TH 9:30-11:00 AM
Phone:512-475-7267
fguridy@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 2002, University of Michigan

Research interests:
Afro-Diasporic Encounters between Cubans and U.S. Americans of African descent in the twentieth century; racialization in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, hemispheric cultural history, transnational history

Courses taught:
The African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, Re-imagining Cuba, Caribbean Racial Formations, Modern Latin America, the U.S. presence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Geographic Area(s) of Study: Latin America, United States

Thematic Field(s): Diaspora and Migration, Empire and Globalization, Mexican American/Latino History, Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Awards/Honors:
Institute for Historical Studies Fellow (2008-09); Postdoctoral Fellow, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2002-03; Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1999-2000

Recent Publications:
Diaspora in Action: Afro-Cubans and African-Americans in the U.S.-Caribbean World (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).
Beyond el barrio: Everyday life in Latina/o America, co-editor with Adrian Burgos, Jr. and Gina Pérez (NYU Press, forthcoming).
“Feeling Diaspora in Harlem and Havana,” (Social Text, forthcoming, Spring 2009).
“‘War on the Negro’: Race and the Revolution of 1933.” (Cuban Studies, forthcoming).