Jason M. Yaremko, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of History
Phone: 204 786 9353
Email: j.yaremko@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Jason Yaremko is an ethnohistorian who has been conducting research in Cuba since 1995. Since 2004 he has been doing field research in Cuba, Mexico, the United States, and Spain for a larger research project on the indigenous presence in Cuba, c. 1500-1900. This research consists of several major lines of investigation including indigenous migration and diaspora, societal integration, intercultural relations and transculturation, and extinction tropes versus the persistence and resurgence of indigenous identity and communities. Yaremko has worked with Cuban, Mexican, and North American experts/specialists in several disciplines, including ethnohistory, anthropology and archaeology. His research has been supported by research grants awarded by internal and external funding institutions, including the University of Winnipeg and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and has produced a number of publications in English and Spanish on indigenous diaspora, identity, and persistence in Cuba and the Caribbean.
Teaching Areas:
Cultural and indigenous history of the Americas (Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean), colonial and early national, post-colonial periods, comparative colonization, cross-cultural contact, conflict, and relationships, migration, mestizaje, transculturation
Research Interests:
Broader research interest in the relationship between indigenous and colonial peoples of North America and the Caribbean Basin. Current interest in Mexico, Central America, Cuba and Caribbean, comparative colonization and indigenous power negotiation and resistance, indigenous migration and diaspora, borderlands, mestizaje, indigenous identity, perception, and representation, intercultural relations, transculturation, and extinction tropes
Publications:
"Ajiaco Indígena: The Arawak Taíno and Diasporic Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Cuba." in Indígenas y Indios en el Caribe: Presencia, legado, y estudio, edited by Jorge Ulloa Hung and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas. Santo Domingo: INTEC, 2017.
Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515-1900. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2016.
"’Los Indios de Campeche’: The Maya Diaspora and the Mesoamerican Presence in Colonial Cuba.” In Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean, edited by Ivan Roksandic, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016.
"Indigenous Diaspora, Bondage, and Freedom in Colonial Cuba," in Borderlands in the Iberian World: Environments, Histories, Cultures, Cynthia Radding, Danna Levin Rojo, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
"'Frontier Indians': 'Indios Mansos', 'Indios Bravos', and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the Caribbean Borderlands," in Borderlands in World History: 1700-1914, Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding, and Chad Bryant, eds. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.
“Colonial Wars and Indigenous Geopolitics: Aboriginal Agency, the Cuba-Florida-Mexico Nexus, and the Other Diaspora,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011, 35(70): 165-196.
"De Campeche a la guerra de castas: la presencia maya en Cuba, siglos XVI-XIX" [“From Campeche to Caste War: the Maya Presence in Cuba, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries”], Revista Chacmool: cuadernos de trabajo cubano-mexicanos, December 2010, vol. 6, pp. 85-112.
"'Obvious Indian' - Missionaries, Anthropologists and the 'Wild Indians' of Cuba: Representations of the Amerindian Presence in Cuba," Ethnohistory: The Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Summer 2009, 56(3).
“'Gente bárbara': Indigenous Rebellion, Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Cuba, c. 1500-1800”, Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology (December 2006), 7(3): 157-184.