Department of History

We will be discussing two chapters from Lillian Guerra’s forthcoming book, Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981. The workshop will take place over Zoom. Contact Prof. Phillip Janzen for the chapter and link to the meeting.

The discussant will be María de los Ángeles Torres, Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan and has written many essays and chapters on immigration and US/Cuba relations. She is the author of two books,The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the US, and the Promise of a Better Future(Beacon Press, 2004), and In the Land of Mirrors: The Politics of Cuban Exiles in the United States (University of Michigan Press, 1999). She is also co-author of Citizens in the Present: Youth Civic Engagement in the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and editor of By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and Out of Exile (Temple University Press, 2002).

Professor Lillian Guerra received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of many scholarly articles and works of public scholarship, as well as four books: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958 (Yale University Press, 2018). Visions of Power in Cuba received the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Guerra has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.