Please join the University of Houston Department of History and the for lecture presented by Dr. Louis A. Pérez, Jr., director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pérez's principal research interests center on the nineteenth and twentieth-century Caribbean, with a research emphasis on Cuba. Pérez is author of numerous books on Cuban history and culture, including On Becoming Cuban: Iden-tity, Nationality, and Culture and The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past. He is also the winner of Elsa Gloveia Prize, George Perkins Marsh Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities: Iberi-an and Latin American History & 2000 Bolton-Johnson Prize.
Sponsored by the History Department, Center for Public History, Moore’s Chair in African-American History, the NEH-Cullen Chair in History and Business, the Arab-American Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History and the UH Downtown Center for Latino Studies.
Date: April 4, 2019
Time: Reception 5:00 pm| Lecture 5:30 pm
Location: UH Hilton Waldrof-Astoria Ballroom
