On the occasion of the rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, Eric Hershberg and Stanley Katz reflect on twenty years of the Council’s work in building bridges to the Cuban scholarly community under complex and politically-charged circumstances. From supporting the preservation of Hemingway’s papers at his Cuban residence to helping to bring Cuban economists into a global conversation, SSRC’s Cuba Program helped create the conditions for the current expansion of scholarly ties.
Eric Hershberg
Eric Hershberg is Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University and served on the SSRC staff from 1990 to 2005. He is co-editor, with William M. LeoGrande, of A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations: Social, Political and Economic Implications (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
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by Eric HershbergDuring the summer of 2006, a month before Fidel Castro stunned the world by temporarily stepping down from his responsibilities as Cuba’s head of state after 47 uninterrupted years at the helm, a companion and I traveled back roads of the Western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio. We picked up dozens of hitchhikers, from […]
April 2, 2008