Sherry Johnson

Sherry Johnson earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1995. She specializes in Latin American History with a concentration on the colonial Caribbean and colonial Florida. She has published several articles and book reviews, and has a book forthcoming, Crafting the Ever-faithful Isle: Military Reform and the Transformation of Cuba, 1753-1808, which in its dissertation form won the Jay I. Kislak Foundation Award for the Best Dissertation or Monograph in History or Anthropology in 1996. Her other awards include the Lydia Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies, Conference on Latin American History beginning in May 1999; participation in an SSRC/ACLS Workshop on Cuba (1998); an Andrew P. Mellon Foundation Award (1995); and an A. Curtis Wilgus Award in Caribbean Studies (1992). Currently, she is a member of the History Department and the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University in Miami.