Jennifer Lambe Named Senior Managing Editor at DR

Tom Mullaney
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With the new season of Dissertation Reviews up and running, it is my great pleasure to share exciting and important news with the DR community.

Jennifer Lambe, our talented and tireless Managing Editor and Field Editor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, has accepted our invitation to become a Senior Managing Editor here at Dissertation Reviews. She will be working with fellow Senior Managing Editor, Leon Rocha, as well as the entire editorial committee and participants of the project, to steward the continued growth of Dissertation Reviews. We are delighted to begin this new working relationship with Jennifer – the future is bright.

To learn more about the entire Dissertation Reviews Editorial Committee, please visit this page.

– Tom Mullaney, Editor-in-Chief

Jennifer Lambe is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Brown University, and received her PhD from Yale University. Her current book project, Madhouse: Cuban History from the Margins, traces the history of mental illness and mental healing in Cuba from the colonial period through 1980. The project traces the history of the Mazorra Mental Hospital, the only public psychiatric facility in Cuba until the 1959 Revolution and an iconic site of political intervention and social reform. Jennifer has published in Cuba: People, Culture, History (ed. Alan West-Durán, 2011) and Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe.

Image: Celebration of Light, Brazil. Photograph by Eviatar Bach. Wikimedia Commons.

Post written by: Tom Mullaney

Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at Stanford University, having received his Ph.D. in History in 2006 from Columbia University. He is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (University of California Press, 2011, Foreword by Benedict Anderson). This book charts the history of China’s 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie), a joint social scientific-Communist state expedition wherein a group of ethnologists, linguists, and Party cadres traveled to the most ethnically diverse province in the People’s Republic to determine which minority communities would and would not be officially recognized by the state. He is also principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority, a pathbreaking volume that examines China’s majority ethnonational group. He is currently writing the first-ever global history of the Chinese typewriter, one of the most significant and misunderstood technological innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.