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.