Department of History

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 (2019), and serves on the editorial team of the journal Cuban Studies.

Lambe is currently working on new projects related to (1) popular culture in the Americas and (2) evolving theories of the mind-brain relationship.