Cuban intellectual, professor and Senior Researcher at the University of Havana, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Merit Academician of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and professor at the Fernando Ortiz House of Advanced Studies. He is a specialist in issues related to slavery. He belongs to the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, to the Association of Historians of Latin America and the Caribbean and to the Cuba Section of LASA. He is part of the UNESCO Committee on the Slave Route. His titles include The Cuban Slave Market 1790-1880, in collaboration with Laird Bergad and Fe Iglesias, edited by the University of Cambridge; The Other Family: relatives, networks and descendants of slaves in Cuba (Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2009); The illustrious surnames: blacks in colonial Havana (Ediciones Boloña, 2009); From the nation´s Cabildo to the house of saint (Fuente Viva Collection. Fernando Ortiz Foundation, 2012); and Pedro Blanco: the slave driver Myth reality and spaces (Bologna Editions, Raíces Collection, 2018).

AWARDS/

2003 National Prize for Social and Humanistic Sciences
2003 Casa de las Américas Award for the book La Otra Familia (relatives, networks and descendants of slaves in Cuba)
2005 National History Award
2005 Critics´ Prize awarded by the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the Cuban Book Institute, for the title The other family (relatives, networks and descendants of slaves in Cuba)
2007 First Degree Frank País Medal