Please join us for a talk by Jennifer Lambe, professor of history and Latin American studies at Brown University, who will discuss her research on psychiatry in Cuba.

Jennifer Lambe (PhD, Yale University) is an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history. Her first book, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History, traces the history of mental illness and mental healing in Cuba through the Mazorra Mental Asylum, the only public psychiatric hospital in Cuba until the 1959 Revolution and a key site of political intervention and social reform.