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Lisa Jarvinen, Ph.D.

Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Director, Latin American Studies Program, Professor of History

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”
  • 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)