Jennifer L. Lambe

Jennifer Lambe (PhD, Yale University; AB, Brown University) is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Brown University. Lambe's new book, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (2024), explores explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. She is also the author of Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (2017) and co-editor (with Michael J. Bustamante) of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980 (2019). 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. She is also an enthusiastic consumer of pop culture in Cuba and beyond. You can follower her on Twitter @catedracuba.