Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández Speaking Topics

• Hispanics/Latinos, Cultural Fluency, Diversity

  • Translating Hispanic/Latino Culture

  • The Best Way of Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

  • Who Is Missing at the Table?: Creating an Institutional Culture of Diversity and Inclusiveness

  • Don Quixote in the Boardroom: Hispanic/Latino Culture, a Toolbox for Business Success

  • Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty First Century

  • The Art and Diplomacy of Haggling: Lessons in Cross-Cultural Communication

  • Our "Weaknesses" Are Our Strengths: A Closer Look at Hispanic/Latino Culture

  • Demographic Transformations and Hispanic/Latino Politics in the United States

  • Reaching Hispanic/Latino Consumers, Employees, Donors, and Voters

  • Toward a Global Culture?: Not Quite Yet

  • Ten Defining Characteristics of Latino Culture

  • Diversifying the Workplace: It is the Right Thing to Do; and It Makes Business Sense

  • A Latino in the US Academy: Wounds and Medals from the Battlefields

  • Orlando, Florida, the Puerto Rican Frontier

• Contemporary Cuba and Latin America

  • Recent Changes in US-Cuba Relations

  • Revolutionary Cuba: A History

  • Sugar and Revolution: Cuba, 1952-2016

  • Sixteen Threads in the Labyrinth of Cuban Culture

  • Cuba: A History in Fifteen Photographs

  • Cuba in the Twenty First Century

  • Perplexing Puerto Rico

  • A Historical Perspective on Prospects for a Post-Castro Cuba

  • The Longest Ninety Miles: Cuban Migration to South Florida since 1959

  • Puerto Rico's Political Status in Historical Perspective

  • Puerto Rico in Forty Minutes

  • Ten Keys to the Caribbean

Education / Pedagogy

• The Seven Deadly Sins of the Modern University

• Twelve Keys to Successful Teaching/Learning

• We Are in It Together: Dialogue and Collaboration between Historians and History Teachers

• "C" Students, Children with ADD, and the Class Clown: Why We Need them in Every Classroom

• Let's Start from Scratch: A Blueprint for a Twenty-First-Century Model School of Education

• We Need Poets More than Ever: The Critical Importance of the Arts and Humanities from Pre-K to College

• What If...?: Out-of-the-Box Reflections on How to Improve Our Education System

• "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand": Visual and Participatory Methods for Teaching and Learning

• Integrating Latin American and Caribbean History into the Curriculum

• Windows to the Past: Using Texts, Artifacts, and Captured Moments in the Classroom

• Why Did I Become a Historian?

History and Culture: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic

• Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Mental Mapping and Invention of a New World

• Three Crops that Transformed the Caribbean: Sugar, Tobacco and Coffee

• Divergent Patterns of Political Culture in the Twentieth-Century Hispanic Caribbean

• In the Plantation's Own Image: Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations,1868-1898

• Ten Historiographical Keys to the Caribbean

• The American Mediterranean during the American Century

• Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898: Conflict, Continuity, and Change

• Life in a Male City: Women in Nineteenth-Century Havana

• Caudillos, Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1878

• The Formation of Creole Cuba, 1525-1607

• Geography, Will It Absolve Cuba?

• Far Worse than Slaves: Emancipados in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

• History Meets Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean