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Marial Iglesias Utset was Professor of Philosophy and History at the University of Havana for 25 years. She earned her Ph.D. in Historical Sciences at the University of Havana and her M. Phil. and her B.A. at Moscow State University.
"My wife, Marial Iglesias Utset, is a Cuban citizen and a historian of slavery and the slave trade to Cuba," he explained. "Her parents were deeply committed to the Cuban Revolution and raised their three children not only outside of the Catholic Church, but as staunch atheists."
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University (617) 495-8508 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R Cambridge, MA 02138
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Marial Iglesias Utset is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute. Her book Las metáforas del cambio en la vida cotidiana, a history of everyday life in Cuba during the US military occupation (1898-1902), has received several prizes, including the Clarence H. Haring Prize, awarded by the American Historical ...
Co-directors: Marial Iglesias Utset, Jorge Felipe Gonzalez (Michigan State University) This project explores the extent to which the vertiginous growth of the slave trade based in Havana after 1808 was driven by the transfer of human and financial capital and expertise accumulated in the slave trade.
In A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902, Marial Iglesias Utset seeks to disrupt this trend. Utset portrays Cuba at the turn of the twentieth century as a site of fractured and contested political and national identities as the newly freed colony attempted to define itself and trace out a path to nation building.