Raul A. Fernandez, Professor
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
949/824-5272(phone); 949/824-3764(fax)
rafernan@uci.edu

Professor Fernandez completed his secondary education in Cuba, received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 1971. He has been in the faculty at UC Irvine since 1969.

His research is focused on economic and cultural transactions between the U.S. and Latin America. Fernandez has authored five books , The U.S.-Mexico Border: A Politico-Economic Profile, University of Notre Dame Press, 1977; the Mexican-American Border Region: Issues and Trends, University of Notre Dame Press, 1989; Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination, Chronicle Books and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 2002; One hundred years of Chicano History: Empire, Nations and Migration (with Gilbert González), Routledge, 2003; and From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz, forthcoming by the Univ. of California Press.

He also edited (with Gilbert Gonzalez et al) Labor versus Empire: Race, Gender and Migration, Routledge: New York and London,2004, and (with Jeff Belnap) José Martí’s Our America: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies, Duke University Press, 1998. A Fulbright Fellow, he is the Curator of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit Latin Jazz: La combinación Perfecta, which opened in Washington, D.C. in 2002 and will travel to twelve US cities through 2006. Fernandez is the managing editor of the web journal Colombia Report.