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Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History
  Hamilton 550
  919-962-3943
  perez@email.unc.edu



Louis A. Pérez, Jr. is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History. His most recent books include Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (2019) and Intimations of Modernity: Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba (2017) Pérez's principal teaching fields include twentieth-century Latin America, the Caribbean, and Cuba. Research interests center on the nineteenth and twentieth-century Caribbean, with an emphasis on Cuba.
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.