Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti has received the 2023 Library Travel Grant conferred by the Cuban Research Institute (CRI) and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) to conduct research in the Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection at the Florida International University, Miami. His project is titled “Cuban Sound Recipes: Songs About Food from Son to Salsa.”

The grant has been designed to increase access to the special collections and archives on Cuba and its diaspora at FIU. Grant recipients will spend a week consulting the collections and give a lecture during their stay at FIU.