She is Professor at the University of Florida. She is
the author of many scholarly articles and works of public scholarship, as well
as five books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto
Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of José Martí:
Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University
of North Carolina Press, 2005), Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution,
Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press,
2012), and Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba,
1946-1958 (Yale University Press, 2018). Visions of Power in Cuba received
the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its
most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Her new
book, Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981 was
released in January 2023 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Guerra has also
received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation.
