Photos from Cuba

In the Spring of 2009, I served as resident co-director (with Russell Bither-Terry, UNC Political Science) of UNC's semester-long study abroad program with la Universidad de la Habana. I loved our time with the professors of UH (we even got to sit in on an excellent seminar on social inequality, gender, and race in contemporary Cuba), the administrators, and academic and cultural institutions within the city (particularly the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, where I spent a month reading manuscripts).

By working with Rodney Vargas, Program Director for Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, and Bob Miles, Dean of Study Abroad, I now appreciate some of the complexities of managing a study abroad program and I have a much clearer sense of the sorts of limitations and policies that circumscribe -- and make possible -- academic exchanges.

And by living in the residence with a very diverse group of 14 UNC students, in addition to a handful from other universities, I learned a lot about US undergraduates! Upon returning to Chapel Hill, I have tried to bring this helpful perspective into the classroom.

It was amid these strains of thought--Cuba/US relations, politics, university partnerships, teaching--and the particulars of my lived reality that I took some photos.

Avenida de los Presidentes   Avenida G   a boot as a flower pot
walking to miramar   other side of the bridge   Walking to the market
Avenida Salvador Allende   other side of the street   view from the residence
view from the alma matter   down the street from the university   another view from the alma matter
el rumbo del domingo   el callejón de hammel   el callejón de hammel
la habana   la habana   la habana vieja
la habana vieja   view from the museo de arqueología   la habana vieja
la habana vieja   la habana vieja   iglesia san francisco, creo
via cruxis in la habana vieja   fundación ludwig   obispo con s. isidro
on the steps of the residence   el 1ro de mayo   marching
la habana vieja   from the martí statue   commemorating the birth of martí
XVIII feria del libro   XVIII feria del libro   XVIII feria del libro
XVIII feria del libro   XVIII feria del libro   XVIII feria del libro
organopónico anap   organopónico anap   organopónico anap
happy students   estudio eduardo roca   tired resident directors


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