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Michael J Bustamante

@mjbusta.bsky.social

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Assoc. Prof of History and Cuban Studies Chair, Univ. Miami | Dir. Academic Programs, Cuban Heritage Collection | Cuban Memory Wars '21 | The Rev. from W/in '19 | Opinions my own.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

For what it's worth, those additional words can be seen in the screenshot below.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Join us this afternoon!

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Deadline extended! Still time to get your applications in.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Attention grad students in the US! Deadline for the Goizueta Graduate Fellowships Program @umchc.bsky.social is tomorrow.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Great convo last night @umchc w Fabien Pisani & CM Álvarez after screening “En la caliente.” A film about not just *the* little known pioneer of reggaeton in Cuba, Kandyman, but the irrepressible nature of popular culture and Santiago de Cuba as a crucible of Caribbean sounds.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Third, join us on 1/31 at 2pm (online) for the third session of CHC's 2024-2025 Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies, featuring a paper by Chasitie Brown (UT-Austin) and comments from Alejandro de la Fuente.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

An exciting new volume on Triscornia, republican-era Cuba's forgotten immigration station, opened the same year as Ellis Island. Co-edited by my former FIU graduate student John Ermer and Cuban-born scholar Ahmed Correa.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Regreso a la semilla, intellectually speaking for me. Book stack for spring seminar, Islands in the Stream: U.S. Empire After 1898. How timely this has proven to be, though maybe I should have made the case studies Panama and Greenland, not Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii...

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

What a treat to see my mentor Gil Joseph win the CLAH liftetime achievement award at #aha25, and, being the mensch he is, center the work of his 60+ PhD advisees in his remarks as much as his own. (It was a full house, I assure you. Bad photo from my front row-ish seat.)

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Pepe y perritos.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Relatives cleaning out bookshelves brings belated holiday presents.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A sobering piece of art to end the year on, courtesy of visit the other day to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. (Read the label.)

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Honored to be part of this late-breaking panel on the Cuban crisis for AHA25, my first AHA in a few years. Look forward to connecting and reconnecting with many.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Good to be on Univisión's evening noticiero last night to discuss Carter's legacy around the Mariel Boatlift. RIP.

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Good to be back at FIU today in the wizard robes to formally celebrate Dr. Rich Denis's recently completed Ph.D. My first doctoral advisee!

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Michael J Bustamante @mjbusta.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Cool event at UM's Cuban Heritage Collection for those in town. t.co/b7yxLfCA8s Presentation of "Modern Cuban Painters: from Havana to New York," commemorating the 80th anniversary of the historic exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters” at MoMA as well as the seminal book “Pintura Cubana de Hoy.”

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