Professor of History

Overview

Jennifer Lambe (PhD, Yale University; AB, Brown University) is a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history. Her research 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 (2024), centers the interface between political and popular culture in the domestic and international reception of the Cuban Revolution. Lambe's first book, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (2017), traces the history of mental illness and mental healing in Cuba. 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).

 

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