Resources

Mentoring Opportunities and Resources

Graduate students will have access to the following resources and opportunities at UM:

University of Miami Libraries

• The Department of Special Collections is home to a wide array of Caribbean-focused rare books, manuscripts, archival collections, photographs and audio-visual items, maps, architectural drawings, artists’ books, zines, photographic collections, and other research materials. Collections particularly strong in Caribbean materials include the Jay I. Kislak Foundation Collection, one of the most important concerning the history of the early Americas, and the Pan American World Airways Collection, providing insight into the history of commerce and tourism in the twentieth-century Caribbean.
• The Cuban Heritage Collection is home to the largest repository of materials on Cuba outside of the island and the most comprehensive collection of resources about Cuban exile history and the global Cuban diaspora experience.  

Anthurium

Open access publication in Caribbean Studies. Editorial assistantship positions for graduate students in the English department.  Visit the Anthurium website.  

Research Assistantships and co-teaching

Research Assistantships and co-teaching of upper division courses in Caribbean Studies.

 
Cuban Theater Digital Archive

The Cuban Theater Digital Archive (CTDA) is a resource for research, teaching and learning in Cuban theater and performance.  Visit the Cuban Theater Digital Archive website.  

Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics

Our graduate students can take team-taught seminars hosted by the institute that combine the face-to-face quality of traditional classrooms with online collaboration, enabling students throughout the Americas to communicate and work together online. Students can also participate in the Hemi’s Caribbean Performativities Working Group as well as in the Encuentros and the Hemi Graduate Student Initiative. As a member institution, we also have access to the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL), which includes over 900 hours of videos of performance practices in the Americas.

UM Sources of Funding for UM Graduate Students in Caribbean Studies

In addition to the support provided by their own departments, graduate students are eligible to seek research funding from these internal sources:

• University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas: UMIA Field Research Grants; UMIA Distinguished Fellowships
• College of Arts and Sciences: Academic Year Dissertation Award; Max and Peggy Kriloff Student Travel Scholarships; Summer Research Fellowships
• Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowships
• Dean’s Academic Year Dissertation Awards
• Dean’s Summer Research Fellowships
• Graduate School Dissertation Fellowships
• Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Pan Am Research Grant for students working in the Pan Am Collection
• The Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding for doctoral students who wish to undertake dissertation research in the CHC
• Through the College of Arts and Sciences’ UGrow (Graduate Opportunities at Work) Program. Graduate students have the opportunity to apply for nine-month placements in non-teaching units at the university or in off-campus organizations, in place of their regular teaching assistantship assignments. Since 2015, students have worked on Caribbean-focused projects in the University of Miami Libraries (including the Cuban Heritage Collection) and at HistoryMiami Museum. In addition, Caribbean-focused graduate students have interned on important projects in UM’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement that have culminated in exhibitions and publications.