LASA awards Lisandro Pérez for the excellence of his work on Cuba

The sectioneithern Cuba of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) announced this Tuesday that the Acad Excellence Awardandmica in the Studies on Cuba corresponding to 2023 was awarded to Professor Lisandro Pandrez.

The decision, for voteeithern majority, recognizes his work acadandmica and pedageithergica in the area of ​​sociologya, the anthropologistYoHere is research on Cuban history and society, Cuban Americans, race and ethnicity, and politics.Yoethics of the United States towards Cuba, according to the issued act by the jury.

The Committeeand of the Prize was integrated by Iraida Leitherpez (Ramapo College of New Jersey), Antonio Romero G.eithermez (Research Center of the EconomicsYoInternational, University of Havana), Elsada Diana Cassells (State University of New York) and Emilio Jorge RodrYoguez (UNEAC, Cuba), all coordinated by Jacqueline Laguardia MartYonez on behalfeitherSection No.eithern Cuba of LASA.

The teacher’s work It is an obligatory reference for the study of emigration.eithern Cuban to the United States, the document refers.

Lisandro P.andrez earned his Ph.D. in SociologyYoa at the University of Florida (FIU) in 1974 and dSince 2010 he has been a Professor at John Jay College City University of New York.

in the dandeach of the 60 started a prolYofica work as author of artYoArticles on topics related to Cuba that have appeared in publications in the United States and the island, including the Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies or the Cuban Topics and House of the Americas.

In addition to being the author of several books, he has received important awards such as the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History awarded by the New York Academy of History in 2020, or the Mencieithern Honorary Award for the Best Book Published on Latino/as in the United States, conferred by the Casa de las Américasandrich in 2019.

Lisandro Pérez also adds “notable achievements in favor of the promotioneithern of academic exchangesandbetween Cuba and the United States and for the advancement of researcheithern about Cuba and its society,” the act specifies.

for their mandrites as a researcher he has received grants such as the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow between September 2004 and June 2005 and the National Endowment for the Humanities between September 2004 and August 2005.

From his work as a teacher, the subjects taught stand out throughout his career and «sHis investigative concern and creative capacity have led him to venture into the world of cinema and television.eithern». In turn, she has served as a consultant on issues of Latino communities in the United States and their cultures at the Children’s Television Workshop in New York.

At LASA, organizationn of which he is a member ago mtos from 35 toyears, has actively contributed to the Sectioneithern Cuba, of which he was its co-president from 2014 to 2016.

Undoubtedly, well deserved. Our congratulations to the dear professor Lisando Pandrez.