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Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba and came to live in New York with her family in 1962. Behar has traveled to Spain, Mexico and Cuba and written on a range of cultural issues as a poet, essayist, editor, and ethnographer. She was awarded the MacArthur "genius" award in 1988 at the start of her career as an anthropologist, and has been the recipient of many prestigious fellowships for her work, including a John Simon Guggenheim award in 1995. She received the Distinguished Alumna Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and Service from Wesleyan University in 1997. Latina magazine named her, in 1999, one of the 50 Latinas who made history in the twentieth century. Her documentary film, Adio Kerida--on returning to her native Cuba and exploring her Sephardic Jewish roots--debuted in 2002 and is currently touring film festivals throughout the country.Her books include The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa Maria del Monte (Princeton, 1986; expanded paperback edition, 1991), Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (Beacon Press, 1993), and The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Beacon Press, 1996).
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