University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Faculty

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1996)

Field(s)	Latin American and Caribbean History Comparative Slavery and Race Relations Atlantic History
Teaching	Modern Latin America Revolutions in Latin America History of the Caribbean Premodern Slavery
Selected Publications	A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. "Sugar and Slavery in Early Cuba," in Stuart Schwartz (ed.), Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World before the 'Sugar Revolution' (forthcoming, UNC Press, 2004). "Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba: The Tannenbaum Debate Revisited," Law and History Review 22:2 (forthcoming May 2004). Race, Ideology, and Culture in Cuba: Recent Scholarship," Latin American Research Review 35:3 (Fall 2000), 199–210.
Honors/Awards	Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for A Nation for All (2003). NSF, Program of Law and Social Science, Research Grant (2002–03). NEH Fellowship (2002) Postdoctoral Grant, United States Institute of Peace (1999) Grant for Research and Writing, The MacArthur Foundation (1998) Outstanding Research Mentor Award, Ronald McNair Program (1998)
Project(s)	Currently working on a book about the formation of an Atlantic community in 16th-century Havana, tentatively entitled Havana and the Atlantic, 1550–1610, and on a separate project concerning slavery and the law in colonial Cuba.