Lisa Jarvinen, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., History, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
• M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
• B.A., Literature, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, Residential College

Teaching

• AMST 200 – Themes and Topics in American Culture
• AMST 400 – Capstone Seminar in American Studies
• FYS 130 – First Year Seminar
• HIS 202 – Themes in American History
• HIS 206 – The Americas before 1492
• HIS 251 – Global History since 1500
• HIS 255 – 20th Century Global History
• HIS 307 – Colonial Latin American History
• HIS 308 – Latin America in Revolution
• HIS 324 – History of Philadelphia
• HIS 371 – Life on the US / Mexico Border
  • Travel Study Course: El Paso, TX
• HIS 375 – Art and History of Mexico
  • Travel Study Course: Mexico City
• HIS 376 – Contemporary Cuba: Politics, History, and Everyday Life
  • Travel Study Course: Cuba
• HIS 481 – Seminar

Publications

• Co-editor with Jan-Christopher Horak and Colin Gunckel, Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 (Rutgers University Press, 2019)
• Oral history: “Revolution, Diaspora, and Return: The Journey of the De La Salle Cuban Brothers”
  • https://www.revolution-diaspora-return.com/?lang=en (2017)
  • Writer, interviewer, translator
  • Website co-produced with Conrad Gleber
• The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood’s Shadow, 1929-1939 (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
• Co-editor with Richard Garlitz, Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870 (Macmillan / Palgrave, 2012)