Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Application PackageHernandez-Reguant Ariana
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7921 Byron Ave Miami Beach
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FL 33141
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Human Rights
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Former Fair Housing non-profit executive
Former advisor on the Status of Women to the Univ of California, San Diego, Chancellor
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ARIANA HERNANDEZ-REGUANT, PhD
Arts and Placemaking / Urban, Ethnographic and Community Research
Contact
Ariana.h.reguant@gmail.com
(202)271-6840
7921 Byron Ave #304
Miami Beach, FL 33141
Education
● PhD Cultural Anthropology • University of Chicago (2002)
(Dissertation: The Globalization of the Cuban Cultural Industries)
● M.A. Applied Anthropology (Urban) • University of Maryland, College
Park, MD (1993)
● B.A. History (Art History) • Autonomous University of Barcelona,
Spain (1986)
Key Skills
Quantitative Data
Collection
Supervisory and
Collaborative work
Project Management
& Strategic/Vision
Plan Crafting
Public Relations
Editorial
Public scholarship
and arts & culture
writing
Grant writing and
management
Audio and
image/video/web
production
Languages
Spanish (native)
English (native)
French (working Knowledge)
Professional Experience
2022-present
Florida International University’s Dept. of Global and Sociocultural Studies –
Research Associate
Conducting research on public space, visions of citizenship, local
governance and new Cuban migration.
2022
Fullbright Fellow (U.S. State Department) and Visiting Professor of Urban
Anthropology (Placemaking). Pontificia Católica Universidad del Perú
(PUCP), Dept of Anthropology (Lima, Peru, Spring 2022)
Teaching a seminar on Participatory Ethnography and Urban Placemaking.
Guiding projects to activate various public spaces, mapping communities,
and fostering community dialogues.
2020
Bakehouse Art Center (2020). Curatorial Fellow for Social Engagement.
Conducted a historical ethnography of labor, immigration, and activism in
Wynwood Norte. Devised placemaking projects with local artists.
2017-2018
Miami Dade College for Art and Design. - Guest Curator of Public Programs
Devised, planned and led a series of symposia, talks and workshops in
connection with By The People. Design for a Better America, an exhibition
on urban space and social justice around the United States. I developed four
areas to address Miami-specific issues: placemaking in Miami, resilience
and environmental challenges, racial segregation and inequality, and lessons
from Latin American cities (Medellin, Mexico City, Caracas). For each of
these areas I organized a series of round tables and talks with local and
international academics and practitioners.
2017
Oolite Arts/Art Center South Florida Recalibrated Institution Fellow.
Conducted research and mapping, and formulated guidelines for inclusive
art spaces in Miami.
2015-2018
Editor-in-chief (and founder). Cuba Counterpoints (digital webzine on Cuban
and Cuban American affairs, affiliated with Tulane University’s Cuban
Studies Program).
Civic Service/Board
Membership
2022-2024. City of Miami
Beach Human Rights Board.
Member at-large (voted by
the City Commission)
2021-2023. Broward County
Cultural Affairs, FL. Member
of the arts grants panel.
2020-2022. American
Association of University
Women. Fellowships and
grants panelists
2002-2020. Freemuse
(Freedom from Music
Expression).
2004-2008. Member
(elected) of the Exec
Committee.
2002-2003, 2008-2020.
Advisory Board.
Set priorities. Spearheaded
campaigns. Representative
at Womex
2015-2016. Que Pasa
Hialeah. Member of a civic
group to promote civic
participation in Hialeah.
2014-2016. Miami Dade
County, FL. Division of
Cultural Affairs, Art Grants’
panelist.
2011. San Diego Latino Film
Festival
Member of the short films
selection committee
Wrote editorials, oversaw features and review editors, solicited and reviewed
manuscripts on Cuban and Cuban American issues, fundraised and led
public relations, oversaw technical operations, supervised graduate student
interns.
2015-2020
HICCUP (Hialeah Contemporary Culture Project). Founder and director of
non-profit organization to conduct and promote civic engagement projects
involving social researchers and artists. Obtained funding from Knight
Foundation (Art Challenge Grant, 2015).
2013-2015
Visiting Assistant Professor • University of Miami • Miami, FL
● School of Communication (2014-2015)
Taught “Intercultural Communication” and “Qualitative Research
Methods for Media Research” to graduate students. Supervised
community research projects and master’s theses.
● Miami Observatory Project (2013-2014)
Conducted research on Spanish-language media (production and
local reception)
2004-2012
Assistant Professor of Media Studies. University of California, San Diego.
Department of Communication.
Taught media studies courses, supervised theses on media arts and
community engagement, and organized and led public programs, including
an international conference on Cuban culture and art.
2009
Fellow. Advertising Educational Foundation and Alma DDB. Miami,
With a focus on Hispanic advertising, participated in all aspects of the
advertising process, from brainstorming to campaign public presentation to
advertising representations an production at Alma DDB, in Miami, FL.
2002
Post Doctoral Fellow and Curatorial Assistant. National Museum of
American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC). 2002. Worked
on the Latin Music Project with Chief Latino Cultures Curator Marvette
Pérez.
1994
Graduate Fellow. Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Museum of African
American Culture. Washington, DC
● Conducted research on the role of black Baptist churches in voting
registration drives and local, electoral politics in Washington, DC.
● Assisted with the development and programs of an exhibition entitled
“Black Mosaic”, on black ethnicities in the Washington, DC area.
1991-1993
Project Coordinator. National Neighbors, Inc./ National Community
Reinvestment Coalition. Washington, DC
● Coordinated a national study, funded by HUD, evaluating HUD-
funded racial integration and anti-discrimination programs in place in
urban areas.
● Authored and edited a book-report for the National Project on
Neighborhood Diversity, of the NCRC.
Audiovisual Works
Seminola Hialeah.
Dir./Producer. 2021-22.
Short doc in process on
racial segregation and
community ties (Funded by
an Oolite Arts film grant)
“Freedom’s Ends.” 6’.
Director, Writer, Editor,
Producer, Subtitles. (2017).
Popular meanings of
freedom and its relation to
the 2nd Amendment among
passersby in Hialeah, FL.
.
Arts Collaborations and Engagement
2020
Locust Projects, Miami. (February). Human Computers”. Participated in
Jeffrey Thompson’s performance as a human computer.
Bakehouse Art Center. (September). An experiment in “correct queuing” at
Borinquen Medical Center, in the Design District. A project to redesign an
outdoors queuing area to promote social distance through play. With artist
Troy Simmons (project defunded because of the Pandemic).
2018
Freedom’s Paradox. In: “Habana Norte, Hialeah Sur”. Collective art ehibit at
Estudio Figueroa-Vives/Embassy of Norway. Havana, Cuba (Dec 2018-Feb
2019). Multimedia Installation (film, map, sculptural installation, design,
photographs, text). An “installed research” made out of elements and
fragments of my ethnographic inquiry into notions of freedom as projected
on to the right to bear arms among Cuban immigrants in Hialeah, FL.
2017
Study on the Sound of a .22. (with Paula Gersenzvaig). Oolite Arts Center
(Miami Beach, FL, December 2017). Video, sound and text installation
deconstructing the sounds of a Hialeah gun range; ethnography-based.
2016
HICCUP (Hialeah Contemporary Culture Project) 2015-2019. Art &
Engagement Project co-founded with artist Ernesto Oroza. Winner of a
2015 Art Challenge Grant. Devised research and intervention projects
around workers’ tools and labor culture in Hialeah, FL.
2014
Spanish Cultural Center (CCCE), Miami. Public Storytelling Curator.
Organized and curated the “Balsero Open Mic” at the Centro Cultural
Español, Miami, for the 20-year commemoration of the Cuban Rafter crisis
(1994-2014), within a documentary exhibit curated by Willy Castellanos.
This was a story telling event focusing on the sensorial experiences of
those who spent days or weeks at sea, on their migrant journey.
2008
L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, CA. 2008. “Allan Kaprow-
Art As Life”. Participated in the reenactment of an Allan Kaprow happening,
along with his widow and three local San Diego-based curators.
2015-2011
Casa del Túnel/COFAC. Tijuana (Mexico). Co-founder and board member
Arts organization, exhibit space, poetry café, and artistic residency located
at a former drug tunnel and house on the Tijuana/San Diego border.
Devised programming and helped with fundraising.
2005-2010
Haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, CA. Member of an Art Salon led by Visual
Arts UC-San Diego professor and Chair, Steve Fagin.
Organizer, discussant and moderator of contemporary art and architecture,
including discussions and dialogues with Alan Badiou, Boris Groys, the
Caracas Think Tank, architect Teddy Cruz, and others, and participated as
discussant in public art events like InSite and The Political Equator
Recent Presentations
2021
● Social Science Research Council. Media and Democracy Program:
“The Conservative Dilemma: Digital Surrogate Organizations and the
Future of Liberal Democracy.” Paper presented: “Miami Post
Socialist: Digital Activism and Libertarian Paradoxes.” 05.3-4.2021
2020
● Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security & Center for
Democracy in the Americas. “The Latino Vote is not a Monolith:
Analyzing the Cuban American Vote in the 2020 Elections.” Panelist.
(Zoom, 12.3.2020).
● Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE). “Ideology
and the Cuban Diaspora.” Interview Series. (YouTube live
11.23.2020).
● Tulane University Stone Center for Latin American Studies. “Meeting
Cubans for Trump.” Lecture and Q&A. (11.19.2020).
● OnCuba Magazine. “El voto cubano en las elecciones de los EEUU.”
Round table discussion (11.02.2020).
Publications