Michael J. Bustamante

• Associate Professor of History, University of Miami

Michael J. Bustamante (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor of History and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). With Jennifer Lambe (Brown University), he is co-editor of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980 (Duke University Press, 2019). As of 2024, he is co-editor of the journal Cuban Studies.

At UM, Dr. Bustamante serves as Director of Academic Programs at the Cuban Heritage Collection, the largest archival repository dedicated to Cuban materials outside of the island and the largest collection of materials on the Cuban diaspora in the world. In that capacity, he oversees fellowship and grant competitions, conferences, and other academic initiatives designed to activate the collection for scholarship and public conversations in the field of Cuban Studies. He simultaneously directs the undergraduate program in Cuban Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences and its affiliated academic minor.

Dr. Bustamante's scholarly writing has appeared in Cold War History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Latino Studies, Cuban Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Anthurium, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. His commentary on contemporary Cuban affairs has been featured in Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, NACLA Report on the Americas, Slate, Financial Times, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Miami, he served as Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Florida International University and Research Associate for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

• –present Associate Professor of History,, University of Miami

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