Selection of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:

Introduction to Latinos in the U.S (ETHN 110); Qualitative Research Methods (ETHN 405); Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Communities (ETHN 480); Latino/a Cultural Studies (ETHN 420/ETHN 300); Theories of Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism (ETHN 620); American Borderlands: Race, Sexuality, and Nation (ETHN 680/HIST 680)

Selected Publications:

“‘Obvious’ Gays and the State Gaze: Cuban Gay Visibility and U.S. Immigration Policy during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift.” Forthcoming in Journal of the History of Sexuality 16(3).

“Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation.” 2005. Pp. 125-145 in Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings. Edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú, Jr., University of Minnesota Press.

“Pájaration and Transculturation: Language and Meaning in Miami’s Cuban American Gay Worlds.” 2004. Pp. 231-250 in Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language. Edited by William L. Leap and Tom Boellstorff, University of Illinois Press.

“Oye Loca: Las identidades y la cultura masculina gay cubano-americana.” 1998. Temas: Cultura, Ideología, Sociedad (14): 45-56. Translated by María Teresa Ortega Sastriques. Havana: Cuba.