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Alabama-Cuba Initiative 10th Anniversary Events

As part of 10th Anniversary events for the Alabama-Cuba Initiative, 34 UA faculty members traveled to Cuba in February to explore future academic and research collaborations with their Cuban counterparts as part of a week-long series of meetings. Those faculty are listed below.

Topic UA Faculty Cuban Scholars
 Literature: Hemingway, Valdés, Whitman Department of English
Emily O. Wittman
Philip Beidler
Nikhil Bilwakesh
School of Foreign Languages
Ida Maria Ayala
Astrid Santana
Pedro Aragonés
Samual FuréDirector of Museo Hemingway
Ada Rosa Alfonso RosalesPatricia Motola
Chemistry Department of Chemistry
Robert Melville Metzger
University of Havana (UH) School of Chemistry
Luis Montero
Margarita Suárez
Roberto Cao
José Manuel Nieto
Cuban and Cubamerican Literature Department of Modern Languages and Classics
Ignacio F. Rodeño
Ana Corbalán
Alvaro Baquero-Pecino
Karina Vázquez
UH School of Arts and Letters
Ariel Camejo
Ana Cairo
 Law Academic Affairs/School of Law
Stanley Murphy
CEHSEU
Rosa López Oceguera
Raúl Rodríguez
Carlos AlzugarayUH Law School
Juan Mendoza
Mayda Goite
  Cuba and U.S. South Department of History
Lisa Lindquist Dorr
CEHSEU
Rosa López Oceguera
Raúl Rodríguez
Carlos AlzugaraySan Gerónimo
Félix Julio Alfonso
 Theatre Department of Theatre and Dance
Seth Panitch
Vice-Minister of Culture
Julian González ToldeoPresident, National Council of the Arts
Gisela González CerdenaVice President, National Council of the Arts
Bárbara Rivero SánchezProducer
Erich CartayaAssistant

Director
William Ruiz

Allianne Portundo
Rayssel Cruz

Ceramics Department of Art and Art History
W. Lowell Baker
Angel Oliva Llorett
Carlos Enrique Prado
Carlos Alberto PérezDirector of the Cuban National Museum of Ceramics
Alejandro Alonso
 History of Cuban Theatre Modern Languages and Classics
William Worden
 Cuban discussion
 Music, Trumpet School of Music
Eric Yates
 Cuban Musicians
Conversation of Music and Text Department of English/Academic Affairs
Hank LazerNew College/School of Music
Andrew Dewar
 Music, Oboe and Guitar School of Music
Shelly Meggison
Tom Wolfe
  Semester in Cuba Director, Semester in Cuba
Mike Schnepf
University of Havana
Raúl Rodriquez
Mayra Heydrich
 Cartography Department of Geography
W. Craig Remington
University of Havana School of Geography
Nancy Pérez
Julia de León
Ricardo Seco
Ricardo Remond
Religious Healing Department Gender and Race Studies
Maha Marouan
UH School of Arts and Letters
Lázara Menéndez
National Library
Tomás Fernández RobainaISA
Bárbara Balbuena
 Tropical Geography Department of Geography
David Brommer
Institute of Tropical Geography
Enrique Rodríguez-Loeches Diaz ArgullesUH School of Geography
Juan Manuel Fernández Lorenzo
José Evelio Gutiérrez
Ivan González Piedra
Karel Aguilar Mujica
 Cuban Plant Diversity Department of Biological Sciences
John Clark
Director of the Cuban Academy of Sciences in the Institute of Ecology and Systematics
Mayra Fernández ZequeiraHolguín Botanist
Sara Suárez TeranUH Biology School
Alejandro Barro
Lourdes Mujica
Ana María SuárezJardines Botanicos Nacionales
Rosalina Berazain
Rosa Rankin
  Sustainable Infrastructure College of Engineering
Steven Jones
Instituto Superior Politécnico in Cuba José Antonio Echeverria (ISPJAE)
José Ma. Amereiros Martínez
Norberto V. Marrero de León
Rosa María Valcarce Ortega
María Caridad Cruz
  Archaeology Department of Anthropology
Jim Knight
Roberto Valcárcel Rojas
Elena Guarch Rodríguez
Lourdes Pérez Iglesias
Racso Fernández Ortega
Dany Morales Valdés
Liamne Torres La Paz
Armando Rangel
 Nutrition in Pregnancy Human Nutrition
Yasmin Neggers
Kristi Crowe
Vanessa Vázquez
Ma. Elena Díaz Sánchez
Heritage Education Department of English
Karen H. GardinerNew College and Anthropology
Marysia GalbraithNew College and American Studies
Ellen Griffith Spears
Ailet Vega
Alicia Reyes
Beatriz Revuelta
José Vázquez Rodriguez
  Accounting  Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration
Walter A. Robbins
UH School of Accounting
Lissi Campos
Francisco Borras
Julia Ilena Deas
Marisela Reyes