Jorge Duany

Jorge Duany

Professor

Global and Sociocultural Studies


Office: DM 446

Phone: 305.348.1991

Email: joduany@fiu.edu

Bio

Jorge Duany, Ph.D., is Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.

Born in Cuba and raised in Panama and Puerto Rico, Dr. Duany previously served as Acting Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPR). He also served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales at UPR. He has held visiting research and teaching appointments at several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, specializing in anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University.

Dr. Duany has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the United States. He has also written about Cuban cultural identity on the island and in the diaspora, especially as expressed in literature, music, art, and religion. His articles and reviews have appeared in reputable journals such as American EthnologistAmerican AnthropologistInternational Migration ReviewLatin American Research ReviewLatin American PerspectivesEthnic and Racial Studies, and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the academic journals Latino Studies and CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and previously served on the editorial boards of Caribbean StudiesCuban StudiesLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and New West Indian Guide. He has lectured widely throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Dr. Duany is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twenty-two books, including the following:

Areas of Expertise

Caribbean Migration, Ethnicity, Race, Nationalism, and Transnationalism.

Degrees

PhD, University of California, 1985