Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Handy Acosta Cuellar, Tulane University

Handy Acosta Cuellar

Instructor
hacostac@tulane.edu

Biography

Teaching Experience

  • Latin American Studies 1010/1020 with Service Learning Component
  • Introductory Spanish 1010
  • Intermediate Spanish 2040
  • HSS 1000, Intro to Research in Social Studies and the Humanities
  • SPAN 3070 with Service Learning Component

Awards and Honors

  • Past and Present Grant (The Royal Historical Society, UK, 2020)
  • NEH Summer Institute. Thresholds of Change: Modernity and Transformation in the Mediterranean 1400-1700.  Saint John University, 2018. 
  • Changemaker Catalyst Award. Taylor Center, Tulane University. 2018
  • The Robert Cartmill Outstanding Achievement Award in Romance Languages. UNO. 2015-2016.

Service to the Community and Tulane

  • Coordinated  Service Learning Initiatives with local schools serving Hispanic communities.
  • NOLA Jazz Museum Transcribathon Coordinator. 
  • Mentor in the M.A Hispanic Studies Section, Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures. 
  • Member of the Department Diversity Committee
  • President of LAGO-Latin American Stone Center (2017-2018)

Publications:

  • Acosta Cuellar, Handy, et al. Libro Libre: An Introduction to Spanish I and II.
    Pressbooks, 2022. https://louis.pressbooks.pub/elementaryspanish1and2/
  • Acosta Cuellar, H. «Manteniendo La Fragua Encendida: Esclavizados Africanos Y tecnología De fundición De Cobre En Cuba (1540-1767)». Perspectivas Afro, vol. 1, n.º 2, mayo de 2022, pp. 128-4, doi:10.32997/pa-2022-3836.
  • Acosta Cuellar, Handy (2008). There’s only one Cuba. TUNZA Magazine. United Nations Environment Program, June 11, page 9. ISSN 1727 8902