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    The Manuel Moreno Fraginals History Prize, for the best critical essay on the Cuban Revolution

    INSTAR convenes this prize to promote the development of critical analyses about the impact of the Cuban revolutionary process beginning in 1959. Areas of application for these historical studies cover the social, economic, cultural and the political.

    In Cuba, this time period has been one of the least studied and published about from an “unofficial” standpoint, despite the great interest it generates. To make up for this imbalance with respect to the rest of national historical research, INTAR convened the first annual Manuel Moreno Fraginals History Prize, thus named to honor this Cuban historian (1920–2001) who conceived an invaluable solid repertoire of analytical tools and documentary sources.


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  • 2019-2022

    Name of the Winner Category Prize History 2019



    2019 History Prize Jury:

    Abel Sierra Madero
    (Matanzas, 1976)

    Professor Sierra Madero is an award-winning author and historian. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Havana (2009) and a PhD in Literature from New York University (2019). Over the last ten years, he has been known for his work on History of Sexuality.

    Sierra Madero was awarded the prize Casa de las Américas for the book Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana (2006). His scholarship covers cultural and intellectual history in Cuba and Latin America, memory, trauma, testimonio, Cold War and printed culture in the United States. His most recent book, Fidel Castro: El comandante Playboy was published in 2019 and recently announced a forthcoming book, El cuerpo nunca olvida: Trabajo forzado, hombre nuevo y memoria en Cuba (1959–1980).

    He has received several awards and fellowships, including The Martin Duberman (CLAGS, CUNY); Research Fellowship, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)/Ford Foundation; ERASMUS (European Community); Research Fellowship “Sexualities, Masculinities and Modernities,” Ford Foundation/South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS); and “Catauro Cubano,” Cuban Book Institute Award for his contribution to the Social Sciences in Cuba.


    Lillian Guerra
    (New York, 196?)

    The daughter of Cubans who came to the United States in 1965, Professor Lillian Guerra was born in New York City and grew up in Marion, Kansas until her family moved to Miami, Florida she was fourteen. She received her Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Wisconsin and has taught Cuban, Caribbean and Latin American history at Bates College (2000-2004), Yale University (2004-2010), and the University of Florida (2010-present).

    Guerra is the author of many scholarly articles, works of public scholarship and essays as well as four published books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Visions of Power in Cuba received the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Dr. Guerra’s fourth book, published by Yale University Press in 2018, is titled Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946–1958. She is currently completing a fifth book of history, Patriots and Traitors in Cuba: Political Pedagogy, Rehabilitation and Vanguard Youth, 1961–1981.

    Among recent works of public interest are Guerra’s articles in NACLA, the American Historical Association’s Perspectives, Newsweek in Latin America, the prestigious literary and news journal Letras Libres published in Mexico City, and most recently, The New York Times. In 2014-2015, Guerra received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. At the University of Florida, she has held the Waldo W. Neikirk term professorship for excellence in teaching at the University of Florida (2016-2019) and the University of Florida’s Research Foundation Professorship (2017-2020) for superb scholarship..


    Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez
    (Santa Clara, 1965)


    Rafael Rojas is a Cuban historian and essayist residing in Mexico. He graduated in Philosophy from the University of Havana and earned a doctorate in History from El Colegio de México.

    He is the author of more than twenty books on the intellectual and political history of Latin America, Mexico and Cuba. He received the Matías Romero Prize for his book Cuba Mexicana. Historia de una Anexión Imposible (2001). He also published Tumbas sin sosiego. Revolución, disidencia y exilio del intelectual cubano (2006) and Las repúblicas de aire. Utopía y desencanto en la Revolución de Hispanoamérica (2009).

    Since 1996 he has been a professor and researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Austin universities. He collaborates with different media outlets and maintains a column in the newspaper La Jornada, in Mexico.