Entrance to the main building of the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan in Merida, Mexico.
Main facade of the Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos in Seville, Spain.
The Universities
The College of Arts and Sciences of the University at Buffalo has a group of highly qualified professors in a variety of disciplines that can offer students a broad array of approaches, experiences and methodological orientations to the integral study of the Caribbean. The university also has a library system and informational technology resources that can be placed at the service of researchers and students for the rigorous study of the region. In addition, the University at Buffalo has a history of being a pioneering institution committed to the study of the Caribbean and the American continent. UB established the first ever graduate program of Puerto Rican Studies in 1967.
Like many areas in the Caribbean, Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier also have a long and rich history of hosting and being transformed by transnational and intercultural communities, as is the case with the large Caribbean population in Buffalo, composed primarily of Puerto Ricans.
Our program in Caribbean Cultural Studies has its origins in the pioneering efforts launched in 1997 to reach out to the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, Cuba. In 2002 UB and UH launched the first ever joint degree-granting program between a Cuban and a US institution of higher education. Due to circumstances out of the control of both institutions, the University at Buffalo decided in December of 2007 to temporarily suspend academic group travel to Cuba. For a history of the program in Cuba please visit our Program News section.
Together with our partners in Cuba, UB has also opened up important relationships in Mexico and Spain. The School of Anthropological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Yucatan enjoys major international recognition as the primary center of research and learning in the State of Yucatan and in the greater Mayab world. For its part, the School of Spanish American Studies in Seville, Spain, is the principal European research center devoted to the study of colonial and modern Spanish America and the Caribbean. For more information on our partner institutions visit the following web sites:
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Universidad de la Habana |
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Facultad de Ciencias Antropologicas Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan |
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Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos |