Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar is a poet, writer, filmmaker, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award and a John Simon Guggenheim award, she is most recently director and producer of Adio Kerida/Goodbye Dear Love: A Cuban Sephardic Journey, a feature-length film about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Cuban Jews living in Cuba, Miami, and New York.
