Jose Amador
José Amador's work examines Latin American history from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives, but his primary research interests include the cultural history of medicine, the history of racial formation, Caribbean history, and, more recently, transgender studies.
Dr. Amador's first book, Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940 (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015), argues that the circulation of public health initiatives launched in the colonial periphery were central to the making of modern national culture in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil. His book was awarded the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for best project in the area of medicine.
He is also the co-editor of Historia y memoria: sociedad, cultura y vida cotidiana en Cuba (Centro de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, 2003). He has published essays on Puerto Rican Afro-diasporic music and on the founder of the Cuban journal Pensamiento crítico. He is currently working on a manuscript about transgender activism and health rights in Brazil.
Education
PhD, University of Michigan
MA, University of Michigan
BA, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey
Source: Miami University - Department of Global and Intercultural Studies
