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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is Class of 1940 bicentennial Term Associate Professor in the department of Art History at Penn. Her research and teaching focus on the art and material culture made in the Americas and Europe since the eighteenth century. A specialist in the history of portraiture, she is especially interested in the history of representational painting in the United States and post-colonial Latin America. Professor Shaw is the founding director of the Penn in Havana Summer Abroad program and has family living in Cuba. Between 2014 and 2019, she visited the island nearly a dozen times with Penn students and alumni. She is a regular Penn Alumni Travel host, leading trips throughout the Caribbean, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, France, Spain, and Portugal.
Peter Decherney is Professor of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute, and Faculty Director of Penn’s university-wide Online Learning Initiative. He is the author or editor of seven books including Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet and Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction. Prof. Decherney has also written for The New York Times, Forbes, and Inside Higher Ed, among other publications. He is an award-winning documentary and virtual reality filmmaker, who has directed a series of films about global migration and on the political role of artists in Myanmar, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the U.S. His virtual reality docuseries, The Heart of Puerto Rico about artists in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (co-directed with Jean Lee) won the Best VR Experience and Best Director awards at the 2020 AT&T Film Awards.
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Day 1 U.S. / Havana, Cuba Day 2 Havana Day 3 Havana Day 4 Havana Day 5 Havana/Matanzas Day 6 Havana Day 7 Havana/ Depart for U.S.