Jennifer Lambe (PhD, Yale University; AB, Brown University) is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history. Lambe's work, which has received support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Coordinating Council for Women in History, and the Cuban Heritage Collection, explores the intersection between political history, intellectual history, and popular culture.
Lambe's most recent book, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press), centers the interface between political and popular culture in the domestic and international reception of the Cuban Revolution. From television to travel bans, Cold War experts to popular dance, the book explores how knowledge about the Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews.
Lambe's first book, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History, was published with the University of North Carolina Press (2017). Madhouse traces the history of mental illness and mental healing in Cuba through the Mazorra Mental Asylum, the only public psychiatric hospital in Cuba until the 1959 Revolution and a key site of political intervention and social reform. She is also co-editor with Michael Bustamante (University of Miami) of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980, published with Duke University Press (2019).
