Louis A. Pérez

Professor A. Pérez, Jr. is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work on the history of modern Cuba includes 15 books, 9 edited books, over 90 articles and book chapters, numerous book reviews and lectures at both universities and scholarly conferences throughout the United States and abroad. His books have won numerous prizes such as the Bolton-Johnson Prize, Elsa Goveia Prize, and George Perkins Marsh Prize. His main research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean, with emphasis on Spanish-speaking Caribbean.  His current research explores the history of rice production and consumption in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuba.