APPOINTMENTS
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
2019 Teaching Assistant, Sociological Theory, UC Merced
Summer 2019 Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Sociology, UC Merced
Summer 2018 Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Sociology, UC Merced
2017 – 2019 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociology, UC Merced
2016 – 2017 Research Assistant, Organization of Ibero American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI-Ecuador)
2014 – 2015 Visiting Professor, Ecuadorean History of Law, and General History of State and Law. University of Americas (UDLA). Ecuador
2013 – 2015 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador)
2012 – 2013 Researcher and Research Team Coordinator, Center of Legal Research, Cuban Ministry of Justice
2012 – 2013 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Roman Law, Theory of State and Law, and History of State and Law, University of Havana
2011 – 2012 Adjunct Instructor, Roman Law, and Theory of State and Law, University of Havana (college education for working adults)
2010 – 2011 Adjunct Instructor, Roman Law, University of Havana (college education for working adults)
2006 – 2009 Teaching Assistant, Roman Law, History of State and Law, and Introduction to Cuba’s National Legal Thought, University of Havana
LEGAL ADVISORY
2015 – 2016 Legal Advisor and Legal Team Coordinator, Secretariat for Higher Education, Ecuador
2009 – 2012 Legal Advisor, Department of Legislation, Ministry of Justice, Cuba
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND COMMUNITY TALKS
2020 Pre-Law Society General Body Meeting, UC Merced, Guest Speaker
2020 Sociology Faculty & Student Panel, UC Merced, Invited Speaker
2020 “Las Nuevas Leyes y la Asamblea Nacional en Cuba,” El Enjambre Podcast, Invited Speaker
2020 “El Derecho en Cuba en Tiempos de Covid-19,” elToque – Periodismo de Barrio, Guest Speaker
(Transcription: https://eltoque.com/entrevista-el-derecho- en-cuba-en-tiempos-de-coronavirus/)
2020 Symposium Community Engaged Research: Transforming Humanities Graduate Education, UC Merced, Invited Panelist
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
MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE
Reviewer for Qualitative Sociology
Mentor, Grad-EXCEL Peer Mentor Program, UC Merced (2020-2021)
Chair to Cuba: Hacia una nueva Constitución Panel at 2015 LASA Congress in San Juan, PR
Organizer of Esencia y valor de la democracia. Una mirada a la obra de Hans Kelsen, 93 años después International Workshop in Havana (2010)
Research Team Member, (Im)Mobility in the Americas Regional Network
Graduate Student Member, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Graduate Student Member, American Sociological Association (ASA)
Graduate Student Member, California Sociological Association (CSA)
Graduate Student Member, Law and Society Association (LSA)
Graduate Student Member, American Association of Legal History (ASLH)
Latin American Network of Law and Society (RELADES)
SKILLS
Software: Stata, Python, SQL Programing Language, Computational Text Analysis with Voyant
Tools, MS (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).Languages: Spanish (native speaker) and English