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Cultural Anthropologist, Librarian, Curator, and Bead Artist

I am the Cuban Heritage Collection Librarian and Curator of Latin American Collections at the University of Miami Libraries.

My doctoral research explores Afro-Asian religious formation and material culture in Cuba. More recently, I have worked on issues and responses of healthcare needs among Afro-Cuban religious practitioners.

I hold a secondary teaching appointment in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami and teach classes on religion; Latin America & the Caribbean; and anthropology. I am an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School and I am interested in print cultures and the history of the book in the circum-Atlantic.