Alejandro de la Fuente

Alejandro de la Fuente received his law degree from the University of Havana in 1985, then a Phd in History from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. He has written extensively on issues of race and slavery in Cuba. De la Fuente was UCIS Research Professor, Latin American and Caribbean History, at the University of Pittsburgh, after being at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and the University of Havana. He has joined the faculty at Harvard University, where he is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies. He is the founding Director of the Institute of Afro-Latin American Studies at Harvard and the faculty Co-Chair, along with Professor Jorge Domínguez, of the Cuban Studies Program. He is the Senior Editor of the journal Cuban Studies.-- aaas.fas.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/alejandro-de-la-fuente