Oscar Grandio Moraguez has a B..A in International Studies at
Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales in Havana, Cuba;
an M.A. in African Studies at El Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City;
and a Ph.D. in History, focused on African Studies and African
Diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean at York University in
Toronto, Canada. He has taught at York University and University of
North Florida. His primary research field is concentrated on West
Central Africans in Colonial Cuba, and has published several
articles on this issue. He has worked as a research fellow for the
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and for the Ecclesiastical and
Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS) project. Currently,
besides teaching African History at USF, he is the director of the
Project "Collections on African Slaves and their Descendants at
Cuban Provincial Archives," cosponsored by the Harriet Tubman
Institute on the Global Migration of African People, Vanderbilt
University, the British Library, and the Instituto de Historia de
Cuba.
