Sharing a passion for history

Teaching

I have been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at NYU since I joined the faculty there in January 1995.

I teach general courses on Latin American history and civilization from the colonial period to the present in the Core Curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences. I also teach a myriad of undergraduate courses in the History department, including Cuban history, Caribbean History, and comparative histories of slavery and emancipation.

I teach a methodological course organized around questions that historians will never fully be able to answer, but should always ask—questions about how people who left no written records experienced enslavement, conquest, or war.

At the graduate level, I teach courses on Caribbean historiography, comparative slavery and emancipation, histories of race and ethnicity in Latin America, and comparative revolutions. I have also taught international graduate workshops in Havana, Cienfuegos, Madrid, Paris, and Martinique.

To learn more about any particular course, please reach out using the Contact page.