Bonnie Lucero

Bonnie A. Lucero is a historian of Latin American and the Caribbean. Her research centers on the intersections of race and gender in Cuba. She is co-editor of Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America (University of Arizona Press, 2016). She is the author of Race and Reproduction in Cuba (University of Georgia, 2022), A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century (University of Alabama Press, 2019), and Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Central Cuba, 1895-1902 (University of New Mexico, 2018). Raised in Richmond, California, Dr. Lucero earned her BA from the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific with the support of the Gates Millennium Scholarship. During that time, she studied abroad at the University of Havana, and completed an internship at the Organization for American States in Washington D.C.—opportunities that cemented her lifelong commitment to global issues. She earned her Masters of Philosophy in Latin American Studies from Cambridge University in the U.K. in 2009. During her doctoral studies in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she conducted research across Cuba and the United States, and won two FLAS fellowships to learn Portuguese in Brazil and Haitian Kreyól. She is the Neville G. Penrose chair of Latin American Studies and History at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.