Dr. Cruz-Taura specializes in the history of ideas in Latin America, with particular research interest in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. At the undergraduate level, she teaches History of Cuba, History of Mexico, Colonial Latin America, and the Independence Era, while she conducts graduate seminars on Latin American thought.

Cruz-Taura’s publications include Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba: Contemporary Cuban Visual Artists (co-edited 1989); "Annexation and National Identity: The Issues of Cuba's Mid-Nineteenth Century Debate," Cuban Studies (1997); "Women's Rights and the Cuban Constitution of 1940," Cuban Studies (1994); El pensamiento histórico de José Martí (Prague and Barcelona 2003); and Rehabilitating Education in Cuba: Assessment of Conditions and Policy Recommendations (Miami 2003). She has also contributed book chapters and translations to various scholarly works, and has presented papers at the American Historical Association, Cuban Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association, the University of Paris, and Charles University in Prague, among other academic fora.

During June and July 2005, Dr. Cruz-Taura delved into the Archives of the Indies, in Seville, in preparation for her current project(s) on Cuba’s sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is currently writing the book Cuba, the Early Years. While the book materializes, the wealth of archival materials still awaiting disclosure and historical interpretation that she encountered in Seville has convinced her that early Cuba is when and where her research, writing, and teaching will remain for years to come.

Courses

• Colonial Latin America
• Latin American Independence
• Modern Latin America
• History of Argentina
• History of Cuba
• History of Mexico
• Revolutions in Cuba
• Introduction to Latin American Studies
• History of Civilization I and II
• Comparative Studies on the French, Mexican, Chinese, Russian, and Cuban Revolutions [Honors Seminar]
• Senior Seminar: The Spanish-American War

• Early Spanish Colonization
• Historiography of the Spanish-American War
• Latin America's Nineteenth Century
• Readings and Research Seminars in Cuban History
• Readings and Research Seminars in Latin American Intellectual History

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Curriculum Vitae