The editorial team of Cuban Studies welcomes its new editorial board, which will serve during the period of 2019-2024 to continue advancing the development of the journal. We thank the 2013-2018 board for all its support and guidance. Without its sustained collaboration the journal's work would not have been possible. The 2019-2014 Cuban Studies Editorial Board is formed by: Abigail McEwen, University of Maryland, USA Ada Ferrer, New York University, USA Ailynn Torres Santana, Instituto de Investigación Juan Marinello, Cuba Alison Fraunhar, Saint Xavier University, USA Christina Abreu,...

We are happy to announce the new issue of Cuban Studies, CS47. The number features a dossier on cultural policy, which is accompanied by a number of primary sources written by Cuban artists during the first years of the revolution. CS47 also includes articles on the periodization of the Cuban revolution, José Martí's philosophy, on recent macroeconomic trends, and much more! We hope you enjoy the read!

The Rafael Queneditt Morales papers are now available at Harvard's Fine Arts Library. Rafael Queneditt Morales (1942–2016) was an important Cuban sculptor whose work centered on the celebration of Afro-Cuban culture in general and of Afro-Cuban spirituality in particular. His art combined the language of geometric abstraction with the use of traditional woodcarving to produce representations of Afro-Cuban religious rituals, deities and symbolism. He formed the art collective Grupo Antillano (1978–1983), creating a platform where distinguished visual artists, intellectuals, writers, and...

The Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce that the Harvard Library has begun an important process of digitization of some of its most important Cuba-related resources. The digitization of the José Augusto Escoto Cuban History and Literature collection, ca. 1574-1920, is now underway. The Harvard Library houses the largest collection of unique Cuban monographs in the United States. Over the next two years, Harvard aims to digitize monographs produced in Cuba before 1923 and make them freely accessible....

The latest book publication of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) in partnership with the Harvard University Press (HUP) covers the current economic situation in Cuba and will be released to the public next month. The book is titled The Cuban Economy in a New Era: An Agenda for Change toward Durable Development and is available for pre-order on the HUP website. The Cuban Economy in a New Era is edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard and Co-Chair of the Cuba Studies Program at DRCLAS; Omar Everleny Pérez...

By Julia Cohn '15

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) hosted the world premiere of the documentary Los Cubanos de Harvard (The Harvard Cubans) last Monday, October 23, during the inaugural Worldwide Week at Harvard (October 22-28, 2017). The 72-minute film was directed by Cuban journalist Danny González Lucena and produced by the Cuba Studies Program at DRCLAS. The Harvard Cubans tells the story of a group of nearly 1,300 Cuban schoolteachers who attended Harvard Summer School in 1900, an expedition that is considered to be the most significant...