Faculty

Program Director

Michael J. Bustamante

Michael J. Bustamante

Assoc. Professor
Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
Director, Cuban Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Academic Programs, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries

(305) 284-5203
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Michael J. Bustamante (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor of History and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021....
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Advisory Board

Lillian Manzor

Lillian Manzor

Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

(305) 284-5585
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Amanda Moreno-Schroeder

Amanda Moreno-Schroeder

Librarian Assoc. Professor
Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair and Director of the Cuban Heritage Collection

(305) 284-4900
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Amanda Moreno is a graduate of the MA/MSLIS dual-degree program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Library and Information Science from New York University (NYU) and Long Island University. During her graduate study, she was awarded an NYU MacCracken Fellowship, American Library Association Spectrum scholarship and a fellowship from...
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Other Affiliated Faculty

Edmund Abaka

Edmund Abaka, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

(305) 284-3702
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A graduate of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, Dr. Abaka earned his Ph.D. in African History from York University and his Master of Arts in European History from the University of Guelph in Canada. He teaches African and African Diaspora History courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. These include HIS 201: History of Africa I...
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Sonia R. Chao

Sonia R. Chao

Associate Dean of Research

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Associate Dean of Research, U-SoACo-Director, Master of Prof. Science in Urban Sustainability & ResilienceFaculty Lead on Climate, Environment & Resilience, UMIASecondary Appointment, College of EngineeringExecutive Board Member, Florida Climate Institute Sonia Chao is the Associate Dean of Research at the University of Miami...
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Christina Civantos

Christina Civantos

Professor

(305) 284-4858 x7265
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Victor Deupi

Victor Deupi

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

(305) 284-9319
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Victor Deupi is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture where he teaches history and theory, design, and representation. He received a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Virginia, a Master of Architecture from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He...
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Jorge Ulloa Hung

Jorge Ulloa Hung

Lecturer

(305) 284-2535
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Erica Moiah James

Erica Moiah James

Assoc. Professor

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Alejandro Portes

Alejandro Portes

Research Professor

(305) 284-6126
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Alejandro Portes teaches across the University of Miami at the School of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Sociology. Before joining the University of Miami, Alejandro Portes was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton...
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Marysol Quevedo

Marysol Quevedo

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-6911
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Quote “In the classroom, my goal is for students to gain a broader and deeper understanding not only of the musical styles and techniques used by performers and composers, but how these musical traits intertwine with issues of identity, politics, gender, race, and technology. In other words, I ask students to examine music within the...
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