Ernesto Domínguez López

AUTUMN 2024, WINTER, SPRING 2025

Ernesto Domínguez López (he, him, él), (La Habana, 1976) is a Professor (full) of History and Political Sciences at the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies of the University of Havana (UH), in Cuba. After studying Nuclear Physics for five years, he went to study History and earned his bachelor´s (UH, 2006), master´s (UH, 2008) and doctoral degrees (UH, 2011) in that discipline. Currently, he is completing a research PhD, in Political Sciences, at the University of Rostock (Germany)

Domínguez López has significant research and teaching experience. He has applied the complex approach and general systems theory to historical and political processes, to develop a complex evolutionary theory of history. Within that theoretical framework, he has work on a variety of topics: knowledge capitalism, Cuba-US relations, international relations, political theory and theory of history, Cuban history, Cuban foreign policy, Cuba-US relations. Also, populism and political polarization, research methodology in social sciences and non-linear systems, political economy, geopolitics, and US politics. He has published over 70 articles and chapters and 6 books (authored and edited) on these topics.

He is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham (UK), and he has held visiting positions and fellowships at the University of Rostock (Mare Balticum Fellow), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Tinker Visiting Professor), Arcadia University and the Carter Presidential Center. He has also guest-lectured at around 30 universities in the United States, Latin America and Europe, including Stanford University, Columbia University. Princeton University, University of Virginia, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Oxford, London School of Economics, Catholic University of  Louvain-la-Neuve, Free University of Berlin, University of Turku, Externado University of Colombia and University of Debrecen.