Abel Sierra Madero is a Cuban author and scholar who was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize in 2006. He now lives in New York City where he is pursuing a second PhD at New York University in Literature. He already holds a PhD in History from the University of Havana. From the early 2000s his work has contributed with a transdisciplinary approach to the field of History of Sexuality. According to the historian Louis A. Pérez, "an original contribution to the historiography of Cuba is found in Abel Sierra Madero, Del otro lado del espejo. Additionally, his work is taught in courses about Latin America and Cultural Studies in universities in the United States. Abel Sierra Madero has also been invited to deliver lectures in universities such as, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, NYU and many others. Aside from the Casa de las Américas Prize, he has received various awards and fellowships, including The Martin Duberman ; Research Fellowship, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society /Ford Foundation; ERASMUS ; Research Fellowship “Sexualities, Masculinities and Modernities”,Ford Foundation/South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development ; and “Catauro Cubano”, Cuban Book Institute Award for his contribution to the Social Sciences in Cuba. Sierra Madero has contributed with several magazines, journals, and newspapers such as Letras Libres, Cuban Studies, The Rumpus, Diario de Cuba, El Nuevo Herald, among others.
2009 Fellowship “Sexualities, masculinities and modernities”. Ford Foundation/South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development.
2007 “Catauro Cubano”, Cuban Book Institute Award to the book Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana, for its contribution to the Social Sciences in Cuba.
2006 Casa de las Américas Book Award for Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana.
2001 “Razón de Ser” Award, Alejo Carpentier Foundation, for the project: “Relaciones de género y sexo en Cuba durante las guerras de independencia” , Havana, Cuba.
2001 “Pinos Nuevos”, Cuban Book Institute Award to the book: La nación sexuada. Relaciones de género y sexo en Cuba durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX .
Books
2006 Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana. Havana: Casa de las Américas.
2001 La nación sexuada. Relaciones de género en Cuba durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX, Havana, Ciencias Sociales.
Chapters in Books
2013 "Sexing The Nation's Body During The Cuban Republican Era." In: S. Wieringa and H. Sivori The sexual history of the Global South. Sexual politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America, London and New York: Zed Books, pp. 65–82.
