Tony Kapcia has been Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Nottingham Centre for Research on Cuba since 2003, and has been working on aspects of modern and contemporary Cuban history since 1971. His major
publications include Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000), Havana: the Making of a Cuban Culture (2005), Cuba in Revolution (2008), Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-building and the Book (with Par Kumaraswami) (2012) and Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: the Unseen Story (2014).