Paul Cuadros

Paul Cuadros is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a blogger for the Huffington Post, and the author of A Home on the Field, How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America.

Cuadros is an award-winning investigative reporter and author whose work has appeared in Time magazine, the New York Times, and Salon.com and other publications. For the past 20 years, Cuadros has focused his reporting on issues of race and poverty in America for a variety of publications and news organizations including the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.

In 1999, Cuadros foresaw the impact of Latino migration to the interior portion of the United States and won a fellowship with the Alicia Patterson Foundation to report on emerging Latino communities in rural poultry-processing towns in the South. The culmination of his reporting was his book, A Home on the Field, How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America (HarperCollins), which tells the story of Siler City, NC as it copes and struggles with Latino immigration through the lives of a predominantly Latino high school soccer team. The book has been selected as summer reading at several universities and colleges.

Cuadros continues to write about the Latino community and immigration and is currently working on another book about Latinos in the American South.