Marifeli Pérez-Stable
http://MarifeliPerez-Stable.com
Professor
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
Professional Activities
2009-
Senior Non-Resident Fellow. Inter-American Dialogue. Washington, D.C.
2008-2009
The Brookings Institution. Cuba Project.
2006-2010
Project Director. Dialogues on Democracy in Latin America. Inter-American
Dialogue. Washington, D.C.
2006-
Editorial Contributor. Infolatam. Madrid. http://infolatam.com
2004-
Editorial Contributor. The Miami Herald. Biweekly column on Latin American
topics.
2004-2009
Vice President for Democratic Governance. Inter-American Dialogue.
www.thedialogue.org
2002-2004
Project Director. Looking Forward: Cuba’s Democratic Transition. Latin
American and Caribbean Center and Cuban Research Institute. Florida
International University.
2003
Visiting Fellow. Kellogg Institute for International Studies. The University of
Notre Dame. Fall.
2002-
Editorial Contributor. Real Instituto Elcano. Madrid.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
2001-2002
Project Director. Memory, Truth, and Justice: Comparative Perspectives on
National Reconciliation (The Cuban Case). Latin American and Caribbean
Center. Florida International University. Principal author: Cuba, la reconciliación
nacional/Cuban National Reconciliation. Report by the Task Force on Memory,
Truth, and Justice.
Awards
2002
Looking Forward: Cuba’s Democratic Transition. The Ford Foundation. 2002-2004. $250,000.
2002
Memory, Truth, and Justice: Comparative Perspectives on National Reconciliation (The Cuban
Case). Open Society Institute. $38,500.
2000
Memory, Truth, and Justice: Comparative Perspectives on National Reconciliation (The Cuban
Case). The Ford Foundation. 2001-2002. $250,000.
2000
Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Fulbright Lecturer. Instituto Ortega y Gasset.
Madrid, Spain. Spring 2001. $10,000.
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2000
American Philosophical Society. Nineteenth-Century Autonomism: A Semi-Forgotten Legacy of
Democracy and Citizenship. Travel and Research in Madrid, Spain. June. $3,000.
1999
National Science Foundation. Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education
(POWRE). Visiting Scholar at Florida International University (2000). $99,548.
Publications
Books
2007
Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba’s Transition. Editor and introduction and
chapter author. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Finalist in ForeWord
Magazine’s 2007 Book of the Year Award.
2006
Cuba en el siglo XXI. Ensayos sobre la transición. Editor and introduction and chapter author.
Madrid: Editorial Colibrí.
1999
The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy. Revised and expanded second edition.
Oxford University Press.
1998
La revolución cubana: Orígenes, desarrollo y legado. Madrid: Editorial Colibrí. Translation of
second edition of The Cuban Revolution.
1993
The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy. Oxford University Press. Cloth
and paperback.
Articles
2006
The Mexican Elections. Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano. August 4.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
2005
The Early Republic: Politics, Civic Culture, and Sovereignty. In Mauricio Font and Alfonso Quiroz
(eds.) Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz. Lexington Books.
2003
Introduction. Teddy Roosevelt’s The Rough Riders. Chicago: The Lakeside Press. xxi-lxxvii.
2001
Castro, Fidel. In Joel Krieger (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. 2nd Edition.
New York: Oxford University Press. 111-113.
2000
Estrada Palma's Civic March: April 20-May 11, 1902. Cuban Studies. 113-121.
1999
Caught in a Contradiction: Cuban Socialism Between Mobilization and Normalization.
Comparative Politics. October. 63-82.
1998
Reflections on Historical Possibility: Cuba, 1956-1961. In Michael Hanagan, Leslie Page Moch, and
Wayne te Brake (eds.) Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 167-181.
Articles in Spanish
2008
La era de Fidel se apaga y la de Raúl ya comenzó. In Cultura política y alternancia en América
Latina. Madrid: Editorial Pablo Iglesias. 325-351.
2005
¿Se encuentra Cuba a las puertas de una transición? In Carlos Malamud and Paul Isbell (eds.)
Anuario Elcano América Latina (2004-2005) Madrid: Editorial Ariel.
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2005
El partido comunista hoy y ¿mañana? In Rafael Rojas (ed.) Cuba hoy y mañana: Actores e
instituciones de una política en transición. Mexico City: Editorial Planeta. 11-25.
2005
Cuba: El día después del velorio. Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano. January 21.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
2004
Democracia y soberanía: La nueva Cuba a la luz de su pasado In Velia Cecilia Bobes and Rafael
Rojas (eds.) La transición invisible: Sociedad y cambio político en Cuba. Mexico City: Editorial
Océano. 139-155.
2003
El exilio de Miami afronta los cambios en Cuba. Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano. July 14.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
2003
Cuba: Mito y realidad. Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano. May 8. www.realinstitutoelcano.org
2002
La primera república: política civismo y soberanía In William Navarrete and Javier de Castro (eds)
Centenario de la República Cubana (1902-2002). Miami: Ediciones Universal. 15-34.
2002
Cuba después del Proyecto Varela y la visita de Carter. Análisis del Real Instituto
Elcano. September 25. www.realinstitutoelcano.org
Book Reviews
2004
Julia E. Sweig. Inside the Cuban Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Cuban
Studies.
2004
Huber Matos. Cómo llegó la noche. 2002 Barcelona: TusQuets Editores. Revista de Libros. April.
2004
Robert Whitney. State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilizations and Political Change, 19201940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. The Americas. January 2004. Pp. 458460.
2001
Charles D. Ameringer. The Cuban Democratic Experience: The Auténtico Years, 1944-1952.
2000. University Press of Florida. Cuban Studies. 32: 188-189.
2001
Joan Casanovas Codina. ¡O pan, o plomo! Los trabajadores urbanos y el colonialismo espa ol en
Cuba, 1850-1898. Madrid: Siglo XXI de Espa a, S.A. Encuentro. Spring. 330-332.
2001
Paul Estrade. José Martí: Los fundamentos de la democracia Latinoamericana. 2000. Madrid:
Ediciones DOCE CALLES, S.L. Revista de Libros. April. 5.
2000
Angel Smith and Emma Dávila-Cox (eds.). The Crisis of 1898: Colonial Redistribution and
Nationalist Mobilization. London: MacMillan Press Ltd 1999 and Louis A. Pérez, Jr.. The War of
1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press. 1999. Journal of American History. June. 99-100.
2000
Ada Ferrer. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution (1868-1898). Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1999. Times Literary Supplement. February 11. 33.
Select Opinion Pieces
2009
Miami’s immigrant parishes. Miami Herald. September 10.
2009
Let people decide, sooner not later. Miami Herald. August 27.
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2009
End coup stalemate. Miami Herald. July 30.
2009
Regime fears silent majority. Miami Herald. July 2.
2009
Nations are in for a bumby ride. Miami Herald. June 18.
2009
Raúl won’t face OAS challenge. Miami Herald. June 5.
2009
Moving beyond Fidel. Miami Herald. May 21.
2009
Tackling ‘perpetual anatgonism’. Miami Herald. May 7.
2009
What awaits the Cuba-Venezuela alliance? Miami Herald. April 9.
2009
Policy improving but be better. Miami Herald. March 26.
2009
Mexico's progress in U.S. interest. Miami Herald. February 26.
2009
Cuba lacks respect for human rights. Miami Herald. February 12.
2009
Populists intent on destroying democracy. Miami Herald. January 29.
2009
Electoral contests on 2009 calendar. Miami Herald. January 15.
2009
Cubans here and there still hope for better future. Miami Herald. January 1.
2008
Un ligero aire de cambio en Miami. El País. November 27.
2008
Obama y las oportunidades políticas de la crisis. El Nuevo Herald. November 27.
2008
Una tercera oportunidad. El Nuevo Herald. August 6.
2007
Segunda presidencia de Ortega. El País. January 15.
2006
Calderón, al centro. El País. September 21.
2006
Reconciliación en libertad. El País. August 7.
2006
Populist delusions block Latin America's progress. Financial Times. January 16.
2005
Ante una encrucijada: América Latina y Estados Unidos. El País. December 31.
2005
La despolarización necesaria. El País. January 30.
Works in Progress
Cuba and the United States: Intimate Enemies. Routledge. Forthcoming.
Third edition of The Cuban Revolution under contract at Oxford University Press.
Longer term project, Cuba’s Long Twentieth Century (1868-2002). A revisionist, political
interpretation of Cuban history.
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Higher Education
BA, Political Science, Rosemont College, 1970.
MA, Political Science, University of Florida, 1971.
PhD, Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1985.
Employment History
Vice President for Democratic Governance. Inter-American Dialogue. Washington, DC. 2004-2009
Professor. Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. Florida International University. 2001Visiting Professor. Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Florida International University.
Miami. 2000-2001.
Professor. Program in Politics, Economics, and Society. State University of New York, College at
Old Westbury. 1996-2001.
Chair. PES Program. State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. 1996-1997. Fall 1999.
Associate Professor. PES Program. State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. 19881996.
Adjunct Professor. Graduate Seminar on Politics of Caribbean Nations. Department of Politics.
New York University. Spring 1993.
National Science Foundation Visiting Professor. Center for Studies of Social Change. New School
for Social Research. 1991-1992.
Adjunct Professor. Co-coordinator (with William Roseberry) Proseminar on Latin America: Region
and Nation in Historical Perspective. Center for Studies of Social Change. New School for Social
Research. Fall 1990.
Visiting Scholar. Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Hunter College, City University of New York.
1988-1989.
Assistant Professor. PES Program. State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. 19851988.
Chair. PES Program. 1985-1986.
Instructor. PES Program. 1982-1985.
Instructor. PES Program. 1976-1979.
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