Katrin Hansing
Associate Professor of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College, City University New York
Prior to Ms. Hansing’s tenure at CUNY she was Associate Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University in Miami. As an anthropologist she has conducted research in Cuba for the past 13 years. Her main areas of expertise include: race/ethnicity, religion, migration, and civil society.
Currently she is working on a new book project on contemporary Cuban youth. Dr. Hansing received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. She is the author of numerous publications including the book 'Rasta, Race, and Revolution: The Emergence and Development of the Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba' (2006). Apart from her academic pursuits, she has worked as a consultant for numerous think tanks and policy institutes. She recently completed her first documentray film‘Freddy Ilanga: Che’s Swahili Translator’ about Cuban African Cold War relations.
Katrin Hansing appears in the following:
The Greene Space
Habana Harlem Cultural Fusion: Past Present Future
Saturday, June 19, 2010
6:00 PM
Cultural Fusion: Past Present Future explores the merging and converging of cultural traditions in the Diaspora. In this instance, we look closely at the vital nexus between New Orleans and Havana and the work of great composers.
