Expertise: socialism and post-socialism; Cuba; Colonialism and state-making; revolutions.
Doctorates from the University of Calabria and the New School University.
Dr. Hope Bastian - Wheaton College
She holds a PhD in Anthropology from American University and is the author of "Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility and Emerging Inequalities" (2018) which examines the impacts of economic reforms on everyday life and inequalities in Socialist Cuba. From 2015-2021 she taught at the University of Havana. Her field research uses ethnography to explore the impacts of economic reforms on everyday life and inequalities in Cuba and how social movements around birth, breastfeeding, LGBTQ+ rights and gender violence use new technologies for debates in Cuba's emerging virtual public sphere.
