Dr. Clare Ibarra.
Assistant Professor, Latin American History, California State University, Sacramento
Historian of Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Spring 2024 Course Offerings: Now Available!
History 135B: Modern Mexico, 1910—Present
History 137B: Latin American History through Film (Writing Intensive!)
History 138B: Modern Latin America Survey
Starting Fall 2023: Assistant Professor in Latin American History, CSU Sacramento
Starting AY2023-24, I will be serving as a TT Assistant Professor in Latin American History at California State University, Sacramento!
Read my latest review of Cuba’s Digital Revolution, now available on H-Net.
Joined Stanford History Department as a Visiting Lecturer
For 2023, I will be serving as a visiting lecturer at the History Department of Stanford University. Course offerings:
Winter 2023:
The Historical Ecology of Latin America (Seminar)
Spring 2023:
Twentieth Century Latin American Revolutions
(Lecture course)
FELLOWSHIP
Fall 2022 — Spring 2023
Selected as
Berkeley Connect Fellow
for the History Department
Published Article in Cuban Studies, No. 51
My article “Tropical Science and the Politics of Development: Cuban-Soviet Scientific Collaboration post-1960” can be found in the newest issue of Cuban Studies (No. 51). The article analyzes Cuban-Soviet attempts to bridge the East and the West within the branch of tropical science. Click “read more” for a link to the online version of the article.
Featured in UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix Podcast
From the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix website: “In this episode of the Matrix podcast, Julia Sizek interviews Clare Ibarra, a PhD candidate in history, and Naomi Schoenfeld, a public health nurse practitioner and recent PhD from the joint UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley medical anthropology program. Both Ibarra and Schoenfeld study the history and present of socialist science and medicine in Cuba.”
Podcast episode out now!
Sean Guillory and I have a conversation about Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchange and the role of science in communist revolution. SRB Podcast, affiliated with REEES from the University of Pittsburgh .
Tune in on September 23, 12:00 EST to hear Sean Guillory and I talk about Cuba’s impact on the Long Soviet Seventies! Courtesy of University of Pittsburgh’s Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (REES)’s Fall Speaker Series!.
Selected as a 2021-22 Doris G. Quinn Fellow
From the Quinn fellowship website: “a prestigious honor given to only one or two Ph.D. students a year at 13 top universities throughout the United States.” For more information, see here: https://dorisgquinnfoundation.org/quinn-fellowship-program/what-is-a-quinn-fellowship/
