Dr. Michael Bustamante is an expert on voter behavior and election results, particularly Cuban-American politics, Florida politics and Latinx politics.

He is an associate professor of Latin American History at Florida International University, and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. His scholarship focus on Cuban/Cuban-American history. He is the author of “Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile,” forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press in 2021. With Jennifer Lambe, he is co-editor of “The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980” (Duke, 2019). His writing on contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American affairs has appeared in Foreign Affairs and The Washington Post, among other publications.

Bustamante is a frequently sought-after commentator on Cuban, Cuban-American, and South Florida politics for national and international media. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University.