Arturo Sebastian Gonzalez

History PhD Student at the University of Miami studying how migrants effect political change across international borders; concentration in Cuban history.

Education

Publications

  • Gonzalez, Arturo Sebastian. “Mysterious Munitions in Sleepy St. Pete: the Story of a 1924 Filibustering Campaign.” Tampa Bay History (forthcoming).
  • ---. “Teaching to Toil: Plantation Labor as a Moral Obligation in Post-Emancipation Antigua.” Alpata: A Journal of History 17 (Fall 2021): 108-123.

Conference Presentations

  • Gonzalez, Arturo. “‘No Cubans Allowed’: Diplomatic Interventions and Racial Boundaries in Jim Crow Florida.” Paper presented at Living in the Age of Jim Crow panel, Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium, Orlando, FL. 19 October 2024.
  • ---. “Rise of an American Empire.” Guest Lecture, HIS 102: US History After 1877, University of Miami, 14 February 2024.
  • ---. “Consulates and Conflict:Cuban Institutional Transnationalism during the 1924 Veterans' Rebellion.” Paper presented at Department of History Graduate Student Research Symposium, University of Miami. 6 December 2023.
  • ---. “Everyday Tasks and Hidden Agendas: Cuban Consulates’ Florida Operations.” Paper presented at Florida and 20th Century International Events panel, Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium, Orlando, FL. 20 October 2023.
  • ---. “Cables from Cuba: Cross-Strait Solidarity and Politics in Ybor City, 1898-1961.” Paper presented at the Race and Society panel, History Honors Conference, University of Florida. 10 April 2021.
  • ---. “Cables from Cuba: Cross-Strait Solidarity and Politics in Ybor City, 1898-1961.” Paper presented at the Virtual Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Florida. 25 March 2021.
  • ---. “Cables from Cuba: Trans-Atlantic Connections and the End of Cross-Racial Unity in Cuban Tampa, 1898-1961.” Paper presented at the Virtual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Florida. 17 November 2020.

Public History Work

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • August 2024 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Miami ($76,000)
  • July 2024 Leland Hawes Essay Prize, University of South Florida ($1000)
  • May 2024 Levine Latin American History Fund Summer Grant, University of Miami Department of History ($1600)
  • October 2023 Chair’s Travel Award, University of Miami Department of History ($500)
  • May 2023 Levine Latin American History Fund Summer Grant, University of Miami ($2700)
  • August 2022 Holmes Fellowship, University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences ($10,000)
  • April 2021 President’s Scholar Award for Latin American History, University of Florida
  • April 2021 Dean’s Medal for Excellence in Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida
  • May 2020 Daniel J. Koleos Research Award, UF Department of History ($1000)
  • March 2020 University Scholars Program Research Grant, University of Florida ($1750)
  • August 2018 Benacquisto Scholarship, University of Florida

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, University of Miami
    • “United States After 1877”, Department of History, Spring 2024.
    • “Hawai`i and its Pacfic Worlds: or, How Surfing Colonized California and the World”, Department of History, Fall 2023.

Research Assistant

  • Prof. Lillian Guerra, University of Florida
    Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami
    August 2023
  • Prof. Ariel Mae Lambe, University of Connecticut
    University of South Florida Special Collections & University of Florida Special Collections
    November 2021 – August 2022

Other Service

  • Graduate Student Association, University of Miami
    Senator, representing the Department of History
    August 2023 – Present

Languages

  • English – Native
  • Spanish – Fluent

Non-Academic Experiences

 Legal Field
  • Notary Public
    Gubernatorial appointee
    August 2019 – August 2023
  • Mock Trial
    Judge, Coach, Captain, Competitor
    May 2016 – February 2022
    • Mock Trial Handbook
      Senior Editor and Chapter Contributor
      LitiGators. “University of Florida Mock Trial New Member Curriculum.” Internal distribution, 25 November 2020, PDF.
    • American Mock Trial Association Orlando Regional, Bid to ORCS, 2021
    • American Mock Trial Association Orlando Regional, 1st place, 2020
    • Empire Mock Trial World Champion, 2018
    • National High School Mock Trial Championship, 6th place, 2018
  • Empire Mock Trial, LLC.
    Logistics Officer
    September 2020 – February 2022
  • Ritter, Zaretsky, Lieber & Jaime, LLP.
    Paralegal, temp.
    July 2019 – August 2019
Music
  • Aisle 14, “Bartender's Oath,” Track 3 on Ailse 14, 2023. On Spotify!
Other Service
  • Southeastern Grocers, Winn-Dixie
    Bartender
    January 2022 – May 2022

Contact Me!
asg177@miami.edu