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!
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.
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.
Third, join us on 1/31 at 2pm (online) for the third session of CHC's 2024-2025 Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies, featuring a paper by Chasitie Brown (UT-Austin) and comments from Alejandro de la Fuente.
January 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Third, join us on 1/31 at 2pm (online) for the third session of CHC's 2024-2025 Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies, featuring a paper by Chasitie Brown (UT-Austin) and comments from Alejandro de la Fuente.
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...
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.
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!
Cool event at UM's Cuban Heritage Collection for those in town.
t.co/b7yxLfCA8s
Presentation of "Modern Cuban Painters: from Havana to New York," commemorating the 80th anniversary of the historic exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters” at MoMA as well as the seminal book “Pintura Cubana de Hoy.”
t.co/b7yxLfCA8s
Presentation of "Modern Cuban Painters: from Havana to New York," commemorating the 80th anniversary of the historic exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters” at MoMA as well as the seminal book “Pintura Cubana de Hoy.”
December 11, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Cool event at UM's Cuban Heritage Collection for those in town.
t.co/b7yxLfCA8s
Presentation of "Modern Cuban Painters: from Havana to New York," commemorating the 80th anniversary of the historic exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters” at MoMA as well as the seminal book “Pintura Cubana de Hoy.”
t.co/b7yxLfCA8s
Presentation of "Modern Cuban Painters: from Havana to New York," commemorating the 80th anniversary of the historic exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters” at MoMA as well as the seminal book “Pintura Cubana de Hoy.”