Sharing a passion for history

Teaching

At the undergraduate level, I teach general courses on Latin American history and civilization from the colonial period to the present, as well as a myriad of more specialized courses on Cuban history, Caribbean history, the comparative histories of slavery and emancipation. Recently, I developed a course on families and history, which requires students to do original research that places their own families in a broader historical perspective. I also enjoy teach a methodological course organized around questions that historians will never fully be able to answer, but should always ask—questions about how people who left no written records experienced enslavement, conquest, and genocide.

At the graduate level, I teach courses on Caribbean historiography, modern Latin American, comparative slavery and emancipation, histories of race and ethnicity in Latin America, and comparative revolutions. I have also taught international graduate workshops in Havana, Cienfuegos, Madrid, Paris, and Martinique.

To learn more about any particular course, please reach out using the Contact page.