Michael J Bustamante
@mjbusta.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of History and Cuban Studies Chair, Univ. Miami | Dir. Academic Programs, Cuban Heritage Collection | Cuban Memory Wars '21 | The Rev. from W/in '19 | Opinions my own.
Join us this afternoon!
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Join us this afternoon!
My department is hiring!
TT Modern US history, Reconstruction - Civil Rights Era.
I'm late to sharing, but the window is admittedly short, due to a later budget cycle that we would have liked. Review of applications begins Dec 1.
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TT Modern US history, Reconstruction - Civil Rights Era.
I'm late to sharing, but the window is admittedly short, due to a later budget cycle that we would have liked. Review of applications begins Dec 1.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69444/u...
University of Miami - Assistant Professor of U.S. History, Tenure Track University of Miami | H-Net
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November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My department is hiring!
TT Modern US history, Reconstruction - Civil Rights Era.
I'm late to sharing, but the window is admittedly short, due to a later budget cycle that we would have liked. Review of applications begins Dec 1.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69444/u...
TT Modern US history, Reconstruction - Civil Rights Era.
I'm late to sharing, but the window is admittedly short, due to a later budget cycle that we would have liked. Review of applications begins Dec 1.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69444/u...
We've also just launched an artist residency. Program and application info here. We're treating "artist" as an expansive category. Please help us spread the word.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Call for Applications: The Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program | Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries
Apply by December 2, 2025
mailchi.mp
September 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We've also just launched an artist residency. Program and application info here. We're treating "artist" as an expansive category. Please help us spread the word.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Hi bluesky. Been a minute. Or several months. Dropping in to share the link to the program & registration info for our 2025-2026 Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies at U Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection.
Great line-up. It's all virtual. Hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Great line-up. It's all virtual. Hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Join the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries online for the “Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies”
Fall 2025 and spring 2026 | Multiple dates
mailchi.mp
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hi bluesky. Been a minute. Or several months. Dropping in to share the link to the program & registration info for our 2025-2026 Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies at U Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection.
Great line-up. It's all virtual. Hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Great line-up. It's all virtual. Hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Deadline extended! Still time to get your applications in.
February 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Deadline extended! Still time to get your applications in.
Attention grad students in the US!
Deadline for the Goizueta Graduate Fellowships Program
@umchc.bsky.social is tomorrow.
Deadline for the Goizueta Graduate Fellowships Program
@umchc.bsky.social is tomorrow.
February 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Attention grad students in the US!
Deadline for the Goizueta Graduate Fellowships Program
@umchc.bsky.social is tomorrow.
Deadline for the Goizueta Graduate Fellowships Program
@umchc.bsky.social is tomorrow.
Reminder: Applications for Goizueta Graduate Fellowships
@umchc.bsky.social are due 2/28!
Pre-dissertation & dissertation stage awards for graduate students at US institutions. Support 1-3 months of research in largest archive dedicated to Cuba outside of the island.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
@umchc.bsky.social are due 2/28!
Pre-dissertation & dissertation stage awards for graduate students at US institutions. Support 1-3 months of research in largest archive dedicated to Cuba outside of the island.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Call for Applications | The Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2025-2026
Apply online by February 28, 2025
mailchi.mp
February 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Reminder: Applications for Goizueta Graduate Fellowships
@umchc.bsky.social are due 2/28!
Pre-dissertation & dissertation stage awards for graduate students at US institutions. Support 1-3 months of research in largest archive dedicated to Cuba outside of the island.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
@umchc.bsky.social are due 2/28!
Pre-dissertation & dissertation stage awards for graduate students at US institutions. Support 1-3 months of research in largest archive dedicated to Cuba outside of the island.
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Great convo last night @umchc w Fabien Pisani & CM Álvarez after screening “En la caliente.”
A film about not just *the* little known pioneer of reggaeton in Cuba, Kandyman, but the irrepressible nature of popular culture and Santiago de Cuba as a crucible of Caribbean sounds.
A film about not just *the* little known pioneer of reggaeton in Cuba, Kandyman, but the irrepressible nature of popular culture and Santiago de Cuba as a crucible of Caribbean sounds.
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Great convo last night @umchc w Fabien Pisani & CM Álvarez after screening “En la caliente.”
A film about not just *the* little known pioneer of reggaeton in Cuba, Kandyman, but the irrepressible nature of popular culture and Santiago de Cuba as a crucible of Caribbean sounds.
A film about not just *the* little known pioneer of reggaeton in Cuba, Kandyman, but the irrepressible nature of popular culture and Santiago de Cuba as a crucible of Caribbean sounds.
Reposted by Michael J Bustamante
Happy to interview FIU alum Andrew Gomez about his book “Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida’s Caribbean South, 1868-1945” from @utexaspress.bsky.social 🇨🇺 newbooksnetwork.com/constructing...
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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January 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Happy to interview FIU alum Andrew Gomez about his book “Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida’s Caribbean South, 1868-1945” from @utexaspress.bsky.social 🇨🇺 newbooksnetwork.com/constructing...
New year, new slew of @UMCHC updates:
First, the call for the 2025-2026 class of Goizueta Graduate Fellows is out. Deadline: 2/28. Eligibility: Doctoral students at U.S. institutions. Pre-prospectus (1 month) and post-candidacy (up to 3 months) awards.
https://buff.ly/3WgPfMy
First, the call for the 2025-2026 class of Goizueta Graduate Fellows is out. Deadline: 2/28. Eligibility: Doctoral students at U.S. institutions. Pre-prospectus (1 month) and post-candidacy (up to 3 months) awards.
https://buff.ly/3WgPfMy
Call for Applications | The Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships 2025-2026
Apply online by February 28, 2025
mailchi.mp
January 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New year, new slew of @UMCHC updates:
First, the call for the 2025-2026 class of Goizueta Graduate Fellows is out. Deadline: 2/28. Eligibility: Doctoral students at U.S. institutions. Pre-prospectus (1 month) and post-candidacy (up to 3 months) awards.
https://buff.ly/3WgPfMy
First, the call for the 2025-2026 class of Goizueta Graduate Fellows is out. Deadline: 2/28. Eligibility: Doctoral students at U.S. institutions. Pre-prospectus (1 month) and post-candidacy (up to 3 months) awards.
https://buff.ly/3WgPfMy
Bring on the Vivaporu Endowed Professorship in Latino Studies.
January 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Bring on the Vivaporu Endowed Professorship in Latino Studies.
As President Carter is honored with a state funeral, re-upping my two-part piece from 2020 on fraught memories/ legacies of the 1979 "viajes de la comunidad," made possible by his administration's back channel negotiations with Cuban authorities.
Part 1: https://buff.ly/40rrjsu
Part 1: https://buff.ly/40rrjsu
Enfrentar el retorno: las “visitas de la comunidad” de 1979 - OnCubaNews
Parte I: El tenso comienzo de un reencuentro
oncubanews.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As President Carter is honored with a state funeral, re-upping my two-part piece from 2020 on fraught memories/ legacies of the 1979 "viajes de la comunidad," made possible by his administration's back channel negotiations with Cuban authorities.
Part 1: https://buff.ly/40rrjsu
Part 1: https://buff.ly/40rrjsu
An exciting new volume on Triscornia, republican-era Cuba's forgotten immigration station, opened the same year as Ellis Island.
Co-edited by my former FIU graduate student John Ermer and Cuban-born scholar Ahmed Correa.
Co-edited by my former FIU graduate student John Ermer and Cuban-born scholar Ahmed Correa.
January 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An exciting new volume on Triscornia, republican-era Cuba's forgotten immigration station, opened the same year as Ellis Island.
Co-edited by my former FIU graduate student John Ermer and Cuban-born scholar Ahmed Correa.
Co-edited by my former FIU graduate student John Ermer and Cuban-born scholar Ahmed Correa.
Regreso a la semilla, intellectually speaking for me.
Book stack for spring seminar, Islands in the Stream: U.S. Empire After 1898.
How timely this has proven to be, though maybe I should have made the case studies Panama and Greenland, not Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii...
Book stack for spring seminar, Islands in the Stream: U.S. Empire After 1898.
How timely this has proven to be, though maybe I should have made the case studies Panama and Greenland, not Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii...
January 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Regreso a la semilla, intellectually speaking for me.
Book stack for spring seminar, Islands in the Stream: U.S. Empire After 1898.
How timely this has proven to be, though maybe I should have made the case studies Panama and Greenland, not Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii...
Book stack for spring seminar, Islands in the Stream: U.S. Empire After 1898.
How timely this has proven to be, though maybe I should have made the case studies Panama and Greenland, not Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii...
Some brief comments from me on Friday’s @theworld.org re the Cuban tourism industry’s struggles post covid and post Trump/Biden, the ripple effects, and the Cuban state’s response to the crisis overall.
theworld.org/segments/202...
theworld.org/segments/202...
Cuba's tourism numbers are falling - The World from PRX
Tourism in Cuba has not recovered since the pandemic and new conditions on the island are deterring tourists from visiting to soak up its culture, beauty and political history. Michael Bustamante, an ...
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January 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Some brief comments from me on Friday’s @theworld.org re the Cuban tourism industry’s struggles post covid and post Trump/Biden, the ripple effects, and the Cuban state’s response to the crisis overall.
theworld.org/segments/202...
theworld.org/segments/202...
What a treat to see my mentor Gil Joseph win the CLAH liftetime achievement award at #aha25, and, being the mensch he is, center the work of his 60+ PhD advisees in his remarks as much as his own.
(It was a full house, I assure you. Bad photo from my front row-ish seat.)
(It was a full house, I assure you. Bad photo from my front row-ish seat.)
January 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What a treat to see my mentor Gil Joseph win the CLAH liftetime achievement award at #aha25, and, being the mensch he is, center the work of his 60+ PhD advisees in his remarks as much as his own.
(It was a full house, I assure you. Bad photo from my front row-ish seat.)
(It was a full house, I assure you. Bad photo from my front row-ish seat.)
Pepe y perritos.
January 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Pepe y perritos.
Relatives cleaning out bookshelves brings belated holiday presents.
January 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Relatives cleaning out bookshelves brings belated holiday presents.
A sobering piece of art to end the year on, courtesy of visit the other day to the Norton Museum
of Art in West Palm Beach.
(Read the label.)
of Art in West Palm Beach.
(Read the label.)
January 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A sobering piece of art to end the year on, courtesy of visit the other day to the Norton Museum
of Art in West Palm Beach.
(Read the label.)
of Art in West Palm Beach.
(Read the label.)
Honored to be part of this late-breaking panel on the Cuban crisis for AHA25, my first AHA in a few years.
Look forward to connecting and reconnecting with many.
Look forward to connecting and reconnecting with many.
December 31, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Honored to be part of this late-breaking panel on the Cuban crisis for AHA25, my first AHA in a few years.
Look forward to connecting and reconnecting with many.
Look forward to connecting and reconnecting with many.
Chronic kidney disease runs in my family. My grandmother died of complications from renal failure. My father died of complications from kidney transplant. I may too some day.
So this report on kidney disease patients in Cuba today hit me especially hard.
elpais.com/us/2024-12-3...
So this report on kidney disease patients in Cuba today hit me especially hard.
elpais.com/us/2024-12-3...
El calvario de los pacientes renales en Cuba: “Si quiere que su hija viva, tiene que sacarla del país”
Ante la falta de medicamentos, insumos y personal sanitario, muchos enfermos se plantean migrar para sobrevivir
elpais.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Chronic kidney disease runs in my family. My grandmother died of complications from renal failure. My father died of complications from kidney transplant. I may too some day.
So this report on kidney disease patients in Cuba today hit me especially hard.
elpais.com/us/2024-12-3...
So this report on kidney disease patients in Cuba today hit me especially hard.
elpais.com/us/2024-12-3...
Good to be on Univisión's evening noticiero last night to discuss Carter's legacy around the Mariel Boatlift.
RIP.
RIP.
December 31, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Good to be on Univisión's evening noticiero last night to discuss Carter's legacy around the Mariel Boatlift.
RIP.
RIP.
Good to be back at FIU today in the wizard robes to formally celebrate Dr. Rich Denis's recently completed Ph.D. My first doctoral advisee!
December 20, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Good to be back at FIU today in the wizard robes to formally celebrate Dr. Rich Denis's recently completed Ph.D. My first doctoral advisee!
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Yesterday was D17, & this was my reaction 10 yrs ago.
Interesting what I got wrong (proembargo sentiment in Miami didn't forever wane) & right (there were plenty of obstacles ahead).
But we all underestimated how dramatic the roller coaster would be.
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/cub...
Interesting what I got wrong (proembargo sentiment in Miami didn't forever wane) & right (there were plenty of obstacles ahead).
But we all underestimated how dramatic the roller coaster would be.
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/cub...
Cuban Comrades
The agreement reached between the Obama administration and the Cuban government is by any measure historic, necessary, and overdue. Yet as the diplomatic rubber hits the road and Cuba continues its pr...
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Yesterday was D17, & this was my reaction 10 yrs ago.
Interesting what I got wrong (proembargo sentiment in Miami didn't forever wane) & right (there were plenty of obstacles ahead).
But we all underestimated how dramatic the roller coaster would be.
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/cub...
Interesting what I got wrong (proembargo sentiment in Miami didn't forever wane) & right (there were plenty of obstacles ahead).
But we all underestimated how dramatic the roller coaster would be.
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/cub...