Arturo Sebastian Gonzalez

History PhD Student at the University of Miami studying how migrants effect political change across international borders. My research focuses on the history of Latin America, the United States, and transnational exchanges. I have published and given public lectures on the topics of imperialism, nationalism, and diplomacy. Please send any inquiries via email: arturogonzalez@miami.edu.

Education

Publications

  • Gonzalez, Arturo Sebastian. “Mysterious Munitions in Sleepy St. Pete: the Story of a 1924 Filibustering Campaign.” Tampa Bay History (In Press).
  • ---. “Teaching to Toil: Plantation Labor as a Moral Obligation in Post-Emancipation Antigua.” Alpata: A Journal of History 17 (Fall 2021): 108-123.
  • Book Reviews
    • Gonzalez, Arturo Sebastian. “Miami as Harbinger of the Modern United States [Book Review: Castro, Mauricio. Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024; Mas, Catherine. Culture in the Clinic: Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022].” Cuban Studies 55 (2025, in press).

    • ---. Book Review: [Gomez, Andrew. Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida’s Caribbean South, 1868-1945. First edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.] Florida Historical Quarterly 102 no.3/4 (Winter 2025, in press).

Conference Presentations

  • Gonzalez, Arturo, et al. “Transnational Research Trends in Cuban Studies.” Presentation, 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Mexico City, Mexico. 25 April 2025.

    Gonzalez, Arturo Sebastian. “At the Margins of Inclusion in Ybor City: White, Liberal Hegemony in New Deal Ethnography.” Paper Presented at Questioning Whiteness in the Americas panel, 23rd Annual South Florida Tri-University Conference, Coral Gables, Florida. 28 March 2025.

  • ---. “‘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

  • March 2025 Top Presentation, 23rd Annual South Florida Tri-University Conference ($150)
  • January 2024 Dean's Fellow Travel Support, Graduate School, University of Miami ($1500)
  • 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.

Other Service

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

Languages

  • English – Native
  • Spanish – Fluent
  • Portuguese – Elementary

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!
arturogonzalez@miami.edu