Pérez, Amalia. 2010. La iurisprudentia en el Derecho actual ¿Todos los caminos conducen a Roma? Aguascalientes/San Luis Potosí: Centro de Estudios Jurídicos y Sociales Mispat and Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
Pérez Martín, A. Forthcoming. “Collective Action in Cuba.” in Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Social Movements, edited by David Snow, Donatella Della Porta, and Doug McAdam. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell 2nd Ed.
Almeida, Paul and Amalia Pérez Martín. 2020. “Economic Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America.” In Oxford Handbook of Latin American Sociology, edited by Xóchtil Bada and Liliana Rivera. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Pérez Martín, A. 2020. “La Certeza en la Constitución: Un Bien Político.” Pp 134-140 in La Cuba que Quisimos: La Constitución Cubana de 2019. Debates en Cuba Posible sobre su Formulación, Anteproyecto y Proyecto Final, edited by Jorge I. Dominguez et al. Bogotá: Universidad Sergio Arboleda.
Pérez Martín, A. 2017. “El papel del Derecho en la Reforma Económica en Cuba: entre la República y el Reino”. Cuban Studies 45: 46-65.
Barrera, Seida, Amalia Pérez Martín, and Yaritza López Zulueta. 2013. “La Técnica Legislativa: Estudio teórico-doctrinal y de Derecho Comparado.” Anuario del Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas: 33-54.
Pérez Martín, A. 2011. “Pequeña historia de la iurisprudentia, ¿desde la oficialidad?,” Pp. 21-52 in A. Matilla ed. El Derecho como Saber Cultural. Homenaje al Dr. Delio Carreras Cuevas. Havana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales and Editorial UH.
Pérez Martín, A. 2011. “Ciencia jurídica como arte de lo justo,” Pp. 135-149 in A. Matilla and A. M. Álvarez ed. El Derecho Público en Cuba a Comienzos del Siglo XXI. Homenaje al Dr. Fernando Álvarez Tabío. Havana: Editorial UH.
Pérez Martín, A. 2009. “Pequeña historia de la iurisprudentia, ¿desde la oficialidad?” in O. Hernández Aguilar and D. Caveda (coord.). Memorias del V Seminario en el Caribe Derecho Romano y Latinidad. Pinar del Río: Universidad Hermanos Saís.
PUBLIC LAW AND PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY PUBLICATIONS
“La Revolución Contra Texaco: 60 Años Después,” On Cuba News, June 29th, 2020
2021 Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California Merced
EDUCATION
2019 MA in Sociology, University of California Merced
2016 MA in Sociology, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO- Ecuador)
2013 MA in Political Studies, University of Havana 2009 BA in Law, University of Havana
ACADEMIC AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020-2021 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami
2020 Research and Travel Award, UC-Cuba Academic Initiative, UC Irvine
2020 Luce Foundation Fellowship in Community Engaged Research
2019 Sociology Department Conference Paper Award, UC Merced
2018 Research and Travel Award, UC-Cuba Academic Initiative, UC Irvine
2018 Graduate Student Association Travel Award, UC Merced
2018 Sociology Department Conference Paper Award, UC Merced
2018 Outstanding Women’s Award, UC Merced
2014 Travel Award, 2014 LASA Congress in Chicago, IL
2014 Master’s Thesis Award, FLACSO-Ecuador
2009 Best Teaching Assistant, 2005-2009 graduating class, University of Havana
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020 “The Havana Urgency Court: Revolutionary Identity Formation and Legal Repression in Cuba, 1952-1958,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sociology of Law Roundtable Presenter
2020 “Narrating Violence: Transnational Movements and Culinary Metaphors,” UC- Cuba Graduate Student Conference and Workshop, UC Irvine, Session Discussant
2019 “Collective Identity and Legal Repression in Revolutionary Cuba, 1952-1958,” California Sociological Association Annual Congress, Regular Session Presenter
2019 “Revisiting the History of the 1959 Revolutionary Triumph in Cuba: Movement Frames and Legal Repression in Authoritarian Regimes,” Law and Society Association Annual Congress in Washington DC, Regular Session Presenter
2019 “La Certeza Legal y la Nueva Constitución Cubana,” 2019 LASA Congress in Boston, MA, Roundtable Presenter
2019 “Discursive Contentions and Legal Repression in Authoritarian Regimes: Stories of Revolutionary Cuba, 1952-1958.” Mobilization Conference, San Diego State University, Regular Session Presenter
2019 “Legal Uncertainty in Cuba: The Socio-historical and Political Role of Law in the Aftermath of the 1959 Revolution.” UC - Cuba Academic Initiative Conference: Cuba, Lived & Imagined, UC Berkeley, Student Panel Presenter
2018 “Between Redemption and Resistance: The socio-historical and political role of the law in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution,” Graduate Student Symposium: New Voices in Cuba Studies, Harvard University, Student Panel Presenter.
2018 “Incertidumbre y República en Cuba: Reflexiones en Tiempos de Reforma,” 2018 LASA Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Regular Session Presenter
2015 “El papel del Derecho. Reflexión sobre el Orden político de la Reforma económica en Cuba,” 2015 LASA Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Regular Session Presenter and Panel Chair
2014 “República y Creación de la Ley en Cuba,” 2014 LASA Congress in Chicago, Regular Session Presenter
2013 “El Parlamento en Kelsen, ¿Esencia y Valor de la Democracia?,” Esencia y Valor de la Democracia. Una Mirada a la Obra de Hans Kelsen, 93 Años Después International Workshop in Havana, Presenter and Organizer
2010 “Ciencia Jurídica como Arte de lo Justo,” Historia del Derecho, Filosofía y Sociología Jurídica International Meeting, University of Havana, Presenter
2009 “La Enseñanza del Derecho en Cuba,” Derecho y Participación PopularInternational Workshop, Autonomous University of Mexico City and New Latin American Cinema Foundation, Havana, Presenter
2009 “Pequeña historia de la iurisprudentia, ¿desde la oficialidad?” Derecho Romano y Latinidad: Identidad e Integración Latinoamericana y Caribeña Seminar. University of Pinar del Río, Presenter
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & ADVANCED TRAINING
2020 Write Now Program, National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
2020 Digital Humanities Tools Workshop Series, Center for the Humanities, UC Merced
2018 CITI Program Course on Social/Behavioral Research, UC Merced
2018 Teaching and Learning Scholarship Workshop, CETL, UC Merced
2014 25 años de Nuevo Constitucionalismo Latinoamericano Seminar, participant, Constitutional Court of Ecuador
2012 Dimensión Institucional de la Democracia Seminar, Instructed by Antoni Domenech, Center of Public Administration Studies, University of Havana
2012 La Revolución Cubana. Una Reinterpretación Workshop, Temas Journal
2011 Actualización en Pedagogía y Didáctica Superior Professional Development Program, University of Havana
2010 Concepción y Metodología de la Educación Popular Program, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center and Juan Marinello Cultural Research Center
2010 Specialist Degree in Legal Counseling. Research Center, Ministry of Justice
2009 Legislative Techniques Seminar, participant, Research Center, Ministry of Justice
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2020 Teaching Assistant, Political Sociology, UC Merced
2020 Teaching Assistant, Sociology of Education, UC Merced
2020 East LA Interchange Film Screening and Discussion with Community Partners, UC Merced – Henry Luce Foundation – We’Ced Youth Media, Invited Speaker
2018 “On Cuba’s Constitutional Reform: A Roundtable for Debating the Challenges of the New Constitutional Draft,” Center for Latin American Caribbean and Latino Studies, UMass Amherst, Invited Speaker
