Jorge Duany

Dr. Jorge Duany is the Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology 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. He has held visiting research and teaching appointments at several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. 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 is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 20 books, including Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017); Un pueblo disperso: Dimensiones sociales y culturales de la diáspora cubana (2014); Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States (2011); The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (2002); and Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity (1997).