Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Louis A. Pérez, Jr. is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and the Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his books are Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2006), On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), and To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).