
Overview
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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. 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 Studies, Cuban Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and New West Indian Guide. He has lectured widely throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2006Spanglish America: Les enjeux de la latinisation des États-UnisFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600220
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2004The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United StatesFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600074
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2003Nation, Migration, Identity: The Case of Puerto RicansFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600026
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1992Caribbean migration to Puerto Rico: a comparison of Cubans and DominicansFull Text via DOI: 10.2307/2546936
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1989The Cuban community in Puerto Rico: A comparative Caribbean perspectiveFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/01419870.1989.9993621
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Book
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2015How the United States racializes latinos: White hegemony and its consequencesFull Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781315634104
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2015Introduction: Racializing latinos: Historical background and current formsFull Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781315634104-7
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Book Chapter
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2014
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2003Irse pa' fuera: The mobile livelihoods of circular migrants between Puerto Rico and the United States. 161-183.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203166239
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Book Review
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2020Rethinking the struggle for Puerto Rican rights. Ed. 44.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1853786 Web of Science: 000596996900001
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2019Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States. Ed. 99.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-7370577 Web of Science: 000466715300035
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2017Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and US Colonialism. Ed. 104.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jax374 Web of Science: 000417193900060
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2016State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic. Ed. 35.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/blar.12464 Web of Science: 000371636500035
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2015Oh beautiful Cuba! The social political songs in Cuba until 1958. Ed. 36.Web of Science: 000354753800007
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2014Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism. Ed. 56.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S1531426X00004362 Web of Science: 000344736800017
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2014Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla.. Ed. 88.Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/22134360-08801035 Web of Science: 000342406600028
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Editorial Material
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
Research
principal investigator on
- Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of the San Juan National Historic Site: A Research Plan awarded by National Park Service 2013 - 2015
- Strengthening the Role of the Cuban Diaspora awarded by Open Society Foundations 2012 - 2014
- La Diaspora Cubana y el Desarrollo del Sector Emprendedor awarded by Ford Foundation 2011 - 2013
Videos
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Contact
full name
- Jorge Duany
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-716X (confirmed)
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