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 (Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, where I spent a month reading manuscripts).

By working under the steady guidance of Rodney Vargas, Program Director for Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, and Bob Miles, Dean of Study Abroad, I also learned a lot about managing a study abroad program and understanding the types of limitations and policies that circumscribe 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. Not too long after returning to the US, I heard over a breakfast of sauteed leeks with pecans and honey on my homemade oatmeal bread this report on Marketplace Money, from NPR. It resonated with me in my discomfort with the raging entitlement that ruled a small but vocal part of our group. There is a similarly-themed article here, from the New York Times.

It was amid these strains of thought--Cuba/US relations, politics, university partnerships, teaching--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   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
las terrazas   las terrazas   las terrazas
las terrazas   vinales on horseback   las terrazas
vinales   vinales   vinales
vinales   vinales   vinales
trinidad   vinales   trinidad
trinidad   trinidad   trinidad
trinidad   trinidad   trinidad
trinidad   estudio eduardo roca   playa girón


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