Sherry Johnson
Sherry Johnson is Director of Academic Programs, Latin American and Caribbean Center and Associate Professor of Latin American History, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Johnson’s most recent work in environmental and disaster history, Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution, was published by the University of North Carolina Press, in November 2011. It earned the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize for the best book in Caribbean Studies by the Caribbean Studies Association in June. Her first book, The Social Transformation of Eighteenth Century Cuba was published by the University Press of Florida in 2001. Along with K. Lynn Stoner, Johnson was the guest editor of a special issue on women and gender in Cuban history, Trespassing Historic Gender Boundaries in Cuba in Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos in 2003. Her articles have appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, the Florida Historical Quarterly, and the Colonial Latin American Historical Review.
Several national and international awards have provided funding for her research. In 2010, she was a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, at LMU in Munich, Germany. She also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Extending the Reach Research Grant; a Lydia Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies from the Conference on Latin American History, a Historic St. Augustine Research Institute Research Fellowship (twice); and a Library Company of Philadelphia, Program in Early American Economy and Society research grant.
Related Resources from Sherry Johnson
The Cuban Earthquake of 1880: A Case Study from the Past with Frightening Implications for the Future
American Environments: Climates-Cultures-Catastrophe, 2012
