personally biased. Awards and honours In 1988, Behar was the first Latino woman to be awarded a MacArthur fellowship. *In 2011 she gave a Turku Agora Lecture. Selected bibliography BooksThe Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa María del Monte (1986) Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993; second edition, Beacon Press, 2003 ) Bridges to Cuba / Puentes a Cuba, editor, University of Michigan Press, 1995, Women Writing Culture Editors Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon, University of California Press, 1995, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, Beacon Press, 1996, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, Rutgers University Press, 2007, The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World, Editors Ruth Behar, Lucía M. Suárez, Macmillan, 2008, Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys., Duke University Press, 2013, FilmAdio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love): A Cuban-American Woman's Search for Sephardic Memories'' (2002) See also Cuban American literature List of Cuban-American writers References External links Personal website Adio Kerida: A Cuban Sephardic Journey Official Website Gabriel Frye-Behar, website 1956 births Living people American anthropologists American anthropology writers Anthropology educators Cuban anthropologists American women anthropologists Cuban women anthropologists Cultural anthropologists Latin Americanists MacArthur Fellows Wesleyan University alumni Princeton University alumni University of Michigan faculty Cuban Jews American people of Cuban-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent American people of Polish-Jewish descent American people of Turkish-Jewish descent American writers of Cuban descent 20th-century Cuban women writers 21st-century Cuban women writers Cuban emigrants to the United States Jewish anthropologists American women academics 21st-century American women