Jeff Lambe
Biographic Data
| ID | 239038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Lambe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Lambe |
| SIGNATURE | LAMBE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8390-2477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991
How authoritarianism and extraversion relate to censorship
The Communist Closet: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Ideology in the Cuban Cold War
Why were homosexuality and Communism so closely knit together in the discursive logic of the Cold War? This article explores the convergence of sexuality and ideology in scholarly and popular conversations about the Cuban Revolution. These included a transnational panic over the purported links between homosexuality and Communism, psychiatric efforts in Cuba and the Cuban exile community to link homosexuality to suspicious ideological affiliation…
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution sets out to relate the last three decades of Cuban history through the voices of seven “ordinary” Cubans. Sensitively rendered by Elizabeth Dore, their stories are presented in the spirit of revising, if not directly countering, the revolution's “official story” as curated by senior island officials. If such goals are not unique to this book, the research that inspired it—broad-based or…
Television News Media Consumption and Misperceptions about Covid-19 among US Populations at High Risk for Severe Health Outcomes Early in the Pandemic
Research indicates that misperceptions that become part of people’s initial mental models about an issue tend to persist and influence their attitudes even after the misperception has been corrected. Recent work on evolving mental models suggests that communication efforts about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath may be improved by crafting messages that acknowledge biases and misunderstandings about the virus and other infectious di…
The multiple ‘epidemic’: Debating responsibility in US medicine, media and the law
This article examines the medical, legal and social discourses attached to the so-called multiple ‘epidemic’ in the mid- to late- twentieth-century USA. Such discussions were transformed by the development of the first hormonal remedies for infertility in the early 1960s and the debut of IVF in 1978. These debates, I propose, were shaped by racialised discourses of motherhood on one hand and the market imperatives of US medicine and fertility med…
Christine Jorgensen in Cuba
What should we do with archival dead ends, those enticing finds that never seem to go anywhere? There's one such lead that I haven't been able to shake. In 1953, Christine Jorgensen, the world's first transgender celebrity, traveled to Cuba for a series of performances at the world-famous Tropicana Club. Though the documentary record attached to the trip is sparse, Cubans continued to talk about it, and Jorgensen, for years to come. Here, I recko…
Uncertainty Management and Curve Flattening Behaviors in the Wake of Covid-19’s First Wave
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak poses a substantial threat to public health. Individual efforts to engage in COVID-19 precautionary behaviors are necessary to flatten the pandemic's curve in the waiting period before a vaccine is developed. This study sought to apply the Theory of Motivated Information Management to investigate the relationships among COVID-19 illness uncertainty, information management, and actual precautionary behaviors, bo…
Sobre Andrés Ríos Molina (coord.), Los pacientes del Manicomio La Castañeda y sus diagnósticos. Una historia de la clínica psiquiátrica en México, 1910-1968
R. Douglas Cope (1955–2019)
R. Douglas Cope, associate professor of history, passed away at Rhode Island Hospital on October 6, 2019, with his sisters at his side. He was 64 years old.Doug, as all knew him, was born on August 24, 1955, in Michigan. He received his BA in history from Oakland University (in Michigan) and his MA (in 1981) and PhD (in 1987) in Latin American history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked under the supervision of Steve Stern, …
The Revolution's Fourth Face on the Fourth Network: Feuding over Cuba on U.S. Educational Television, 1959–1970
The Medium is the Message: The Screen Life of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1962
For decades, the iconic image of the Cuban Revolution has been set in Havana's 'Revolution Square', with thousands of Cubans thronging to hear Fidel Castro speak. This portrait undergirds a primary assumption about the Revolution: that many Cubans came to embrace it by basking in the euphoria of Fidel's live presence. For the Revolution's crucial early years, this article proposes that we should reimagine this archetypal conversion experience, se…
Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
All too often we talk about “psychiatric globalization” as a fait accompli: the inexorable spread of Western diagnostic categories, therapies, and conceptions of mind throughout the world. This sense of inevitability prevails across political divides: those affiliated with the project of global mental health applaud the arrival of biological framings to the developing world, while critics bemoan the imperialistic effects thereof. Yet both perspec…
Memory Politics: Psychiatric Critique, Cultural Protest, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Since its 1975 release, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (dir. Milos Forman) has maintained an intertextual relationship with the psychiatric discipline, serving as an icon of anti-authoritarianism and a barometer of the state of the field. The film's popularity in the 1970s drew on a context of youth protest on one hand and anti-psychiatry mobilization on the other, both of which it also spurred. Yet how might One Flew read in a different histori…
Filial Phantasmagoria: The Apocryphal Sons of Antonio Maceo (Father of the Cuban Nation)
Antonio Maceo Grajales (1845-1896) is one of the most celebrated heroes of Cuban independence. Though he died before he could see the dawn of a sovereign, if U.S.-occupied, Cuba, Maceo would become an important node of nationalist commemoration. Throughout this process, Maceo's blackness represented both a source of his prestige-the struggle against African slavery had been intimately tied to independence-and a barometer of lingering racial inequ…
In the shadow of the double: Psychiatry and spiritism in Cuba
This article traces the history of Cuba's first and only Spiritist mental clinic, founded in the 1940s in the central province of Camagüey and shut down by the revolutionary government in the 1960s. It analyzes the history of the clinic with respect to the virtual absence of institutional psychiatric care outside of Havana in these decades, but also in the context of a more enduring problematic: the persistent preference shown by Cubans for relig…
Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo F. Gómez begins the fifth chapter of The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by invoking two medical cabinets: the first, the modest property of a ship-based barber-surgeon, and the second, “arguably the largest pharmacy in the early modern Caribbean,” owned by the Jesuit College in Cartagena de Indias (118). The two cabinets offer a suggestive metaphor for the objectives of Gómez’s excellent …
C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination
Americans of a certain generation know C. Wright Mills for his iconic critiques of the US “power elite,” Cold War big-power machinations, and the alienated habitus of the postwar middle classes. These works earned the sociologist a dedicated following within the New Left, the political and intellectual movement that he helped to shape. Cubanists, however, maintain a rather different image of Mills as the author of the polemical 1960 tract Listen,…
Explaining Public Opinion toward Transgender People, Rights, and Candidates
What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes regarding (1) the personal characteristics of transgender people; (2) a variety of transgender rights; and (3) transgender candidates for public office, measured through a randomized experiment included in the survey. Results indicate majority support on most policy q…
Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to—and at times feared by—ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island’s first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious instit…
Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars, 1955–1970
This article traces the battle over Freud within Cuban psychiatry from its pre-1959 origins through the "disappearance" of Freud by the early 1970s. It devotes particular attention to the visit of two Soviet psychiatrists to Cuba in the early 1960s as part of a broader campaign to promote Pavlov. The decade-long controversy over Freud responded to both theoretical and political concerns. If for some Freud represented political conservatism and th…
Drug Wars: Revolution, Embargo, and the Politics of Scarcity in Cuba, 1959-1964
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 ushered in many radical changes, both socio-economic and political. Yet the macropolitical upheaval of the period also manifested in concrete ways in the lives of ordinary Cubans. The sudden scarcity of everyday medications, closely linked to diplomatic tensions with the United States, was one such outcome. This article traces the transnational battles provoked by the sudden disappearance of US prescription drugs from…
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
The history of medicine in colonial Latin America now constitutes a vibrant and burgeoning field of scholarship. The past decade has brought pioneering studies on the relationship between colonial governance, race, forced labor, and scientific advance. In these New World societies, European, indigenous, African, Chinese, and many more approaches to the body came together, often in conflict but also in synchrony and reciprocal assimilation and ada…
José Martí, the United States, and Race
Interactivity between Candidates and Citizens on a Social Networking Site: Effects on Perceptions and Vote Intentions
Voters and political candidates increasingly use social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook. This study uses data from an online posttest-only experiment ( N = 183) in analyzing how exposure to supportive or challenging user comments on a fictional candidate's Facebook page influenced participants’ perceptions of and willingness to vote for the candidate, as well as whether candidate replies to each type of user comments affected these outco…
Explaining Public Opinion toward Transgender People, Rights, and Candidates
What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes regarding (1) the personal characteristics of transgender people; (2) a variety of transgender rights; and (3) transgender candidates for public office, measured through a randomized experiment included in the survey. Results indicate majority support on most policy q…
Who Wants to Censor Pornography and Hate Speech
Attitudes about censorship have been studied across a diverse range of disciplines, including mass communication, political science, social psychology, education, and library science. Despite varied origins, this research has two things in common: (a) seeking to understand how and where the public draws lines in limiting free expression, and (b) a normative desire to be able to predict and modify such opinions when needed. To influence public att…
Polls and Elections Public Perceptions Regarding the Authenticity of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Public perceptions of candidates' personality traits play important roles in shaping vote choice. Previous accounts point to authenticity as one key trait, but little research has systematically investigated perceptions regarding candidate authenticity. This study uses data from a telephone survey to show that political predispositions (trust, external efficacy, interest, partisanship, and ideology), and television news use (broadcast and cable) …
Indigenous Education, Mainstream Education, and Native Studies: Some Considerations When Incorporating Indigenous Pedagogy into Native Studies
A person coming to know for him or herself while respecting differences characterizes my experience of Indigenous education. Based on my experience with Indigenous education, I have found that what constitutes validity is very different than mainstream education. In the following discussion I present characteristics of Indigenous education based on my experience with a Mohawk elder and Lakota mentor. Indigenous education is intrinsically connecte…
The Communist Closet: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Ideology in the Cuban Cold War
Why were homosexuality and Communism so closely knit together in the discursive logic of the Cold War? This article explores the convergence of sexuality and ideology in scholarly and popular conversations about the Cuban Revolution. These included a transnational panic over the purported links between homosexuality and Communism, psychiatric efforts in Cuba and the Cuban exile community to link homosexuality to suspicious ideological affiliation…
The Revolution's Fourth Face on the Fourth Network: Feuding over Cuba on U.S. Educational Television, 1959–1970
Interactivity between Candidates and Citizens on a Social Networking Site: Effects on Perceptions and Vote Intentions
Voters and political candidates increasingly use social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook. This study uses data from an online posttest-only experiment ( N = 183) in analyzing how exposure to supportive or challenging user comments on a fictional candidate's Facebook page influenced participants’ perceptions of and willingness to vote for the candidate, as well as whether candidate replies to each type of user comments affected these outco…
Indigenous Education, Mainstream Education, and Native Studies: Some Considerations When Incorporating Indigenous Pedagogy into Native Studies
A person coming to know for him or herself while respecting differences characterizes my experience of Indigenous education. Based on my experience with Indigenous education, I have found that what constitutes validity is very different than mainstream education. In the following discussion I present characteristics of Indigenous education based on my experience with a Mohawk elder and Lakota mentor. Indigenous education is intrinsically connecte…
Who Wants to Censor Pornography and Hate Speech
Attitudes about censorship have been studied across a diverse range of disciplines, including mass communication, political science, social psychology, education, and library science. Despite varied origins, this research has two things in common: (a) seeking to understand how and where the public draws lines in limiting free expression, and (b) a normative desire to be able to predict and modify such opinions when needed. To influence public att…
Understanding Third-Person Perception Processes: Predicting Perceived Impact on Self and Others for Multiple Expressive Contexts
This article examines the role of message context in third-person perceptions. Results challenge the assumption that context desirability is linearly related to the magnitude of self-other disparities. Rather, the interplay between message context and specific “others” who may be in the audience is an important determinant. Judgments about perceived exposure are one way this interplay manifests itself, but stereotypes about the relative susceptib…
Creating Indigenous Spaces in the Academy: Fulfilling our Responsibility to Future Generations
An innovative scholarship led by indigenous peoples is emerging worldwide with an emphasis on questioning the knowledge, privileges and paradigms of the Western academy. One of the challenges of supporting new indigenous scholarship within the Western academy is to find ways to engage meaningfully with indigenous knowledge. The Native Studies PhD programme at Trent University, Ontario, Canada, has designed the Bimaadiziwin/Atonhetseri:io option t…
The Politics of Inequality in Brazil: A Historiographical Survey of the Works of Thomas E. Skidmore
One rarely has the opportunity to witness academic excellence on the level embodied by the renowned Brazilian historian Thomas E. Skidmore. Since his migration from nineteenth-century German history to twentieth-century Brazilian history while a young instructor at Harvard University, Professor Skidmore has inspired a generation of scholars of Brazil and Latin America with characteristically meticulous research, deep insight, and great humor. As …
Public Attitudes About Government Involvement in Expressive Controversies
The purpose of this study is to identify segments of the public in terms of their attitudes about the permissibility of government censorship. Secondary analysis is conducted on 3 existing data sets that included J. L. Lambe's Willingness to Censor (WTC) scale (2002). Cluster analysis identifies 3 groups with different conceptions of the proper role of the government with regard to expressive controversies: Protectors who want the government to p…
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba, by P. Sean Brotherton, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2012, 256 pp., US$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780822352051 P. Sean Brotherton
Polls and Elections Public Perceptions Regarding the Authenticity of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Public perceptions of candidates' personality traits play important roles in shaping vote choice. Previous accounts point to authenticity as one key trait, but little research has systematically investigated perceptions regarding candidate authenticity. This study uses data from a telephone survey to show that political predispositions (trust, external efficacy, interest, partisanship, and ideology), and television news use (broadcast and cable) …
Interactivity between Candidates and Citizens on a Social Networking Site: Effects on Perceptions and Vote Intentions
Voters and political candidates increasingly use social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook. This study uses data from an online posttest-only experiment ( N = 183) in analyzing how exposure to supportive or challenging user comments on a fictional candidate's Facebook page influenced participants’ perceptions of and willingness to vote for the candidate, as well as whether candidate replies to each type of user comments affected these outco…
José Martí, the United States, and Race
Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to—and at times feared by—ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island’s first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious instit…
Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars, 1955–1970
This article traces the battle over Freud within Cuban psychiatry from its pre-1959 origins through the "disappearance" of Freud by the early 1970s. It devotes particular attention to the visit of two Soviet psychiatrists to Cuba in the early 1960s as part of a broader campaign to promote Pavlov. The decade-long controversy over Freud responded to both theoretical and political concerns. If for some Freud represented political conservatism and th…
Drug Wars: Revolution, Embargo, and the Politics of Scarcity in Cuba, 1959-1964
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 ushered in many radical changes, both socio-economic and political. Yet the macropolitical upheaval of the period also manifested in concrete ways in the lives of ordinary Cubans. The sudden scarcity of everyday medications, closely linked to diplomatic tensions with the United States, was one such outcome. This article traces the transnational battles provoked by the sudden disappearance of US prescription drugs from…
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
The history of medicine in colonial Latin America now constitutes a vibrant and burgeoning field of scholarship. The past decade has brought pioneering studies on the relationship between colonial governance, race, forced labor, and scientific advance. In these New World societies, European, indigenous, African, Chinese, and many more approaches to the body came together, often in conflict but also in synchrony and reciprocal assimilation and ada…
In the shadow of the double: Psychiatry and spiritism in Cuba
This article traces the history of Cuba's first and only Spiritist mental clinic, founded in the 1940s in the central province of Camagüey and shut down by the revolutionary government in the 1960s. It analyzes the history of the clinic with respect to the virtual absence of institutional psychiatric care outside of Havana in these decades, but also in the context of a more enduring problematic: the persistent preference shown by Cubans for relig…
Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo F. Gómez begins the fifth chapter of The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by invoking two medical cabinets: the first, the modest property of a ship-based barber-surgeon, and the second, “arguably the largest pharmacy in the early modern Caribbean,” owned by the Jesuit College in Cartagena de Indias (118). The two cabinets offer a suggestive metaphor for the objectives of Gómez’s excellent …
C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination
Americans of a certain generation know C. Wright Mills for his iconic critiques of the US “power elite,” Cold War big-power machinations, and the alienated habitus of the postwar middle classes. These works earned the sociologist a dedicated following within the New Left, the political and intellectual movement that he helped to shape. Cubanists, however, maintain a rather different image of Mills as the author of the polemical 1960 tract Listen,…
Explaining Public Opinion toward Transgender People, Rights, and Candidates
What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes regarding (1) the personal characteristics of transgender people; (2) a variety of transgender rights; and (3) transgender candidates for public office, measured through a randomized experiment included in the survey. Results indicate majority support on most policy q…
Memory Politics: Psychiatric Critique, Cultural Protest, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Since its 1975 release, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (dir. Milos Forman) has maintained an intertextual relationship with the psychiatric discipline, serving as an icon of anti-authoritarianism and a barometer of the state of the field. The film's popularity in the 1970s drew on a context of youth protest on one hand and anti-psychiatry mobilization on the other, both of which it also spurred. Yet how might One Flew read in a different histori…
Filial Phantasmagoria: The Apocryphal Sons of Antonio Maceo (Father of the Cuban Nation)
Antonio Maceo Grajales (1845-1896) is one of the most celebrated heroes of Cuban independence. Though he died before he could see the dawn of a sovereign, if U.S.-occupied, Cuba, Maceo would become an important node of nationalist commemoration. Throughout this process, Maceo's blackness represented both a source of his prestige-the struggle against African slavery had been intimately tied to independence-and a barometer of lingering racial inequ…
Sobre Andrés Ríos Molina (coord.), Los pacientes del Manicomio La Castañeda y sus diagnósticos. Una historia de la clínica psiquiátrica en México, 1910-1968
R. Douglas Cope (1955–2019)
R. Douglas Cope, associate professor of history, passed away at Rhode Island Hospital on October 6, 2019, with his sisters at his side. He was 64 years old.Doug, as all knew him, was born on August 24, 1955, in Michigan. He received his BA in history from Oakland University (in Michigan) and his MA (in 1981) and PhD (in 1987) in Latin American history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked under the supervision of Steve Stern, …
The Revolution's Fourth Face on the Fourth Network: Feuding over Cuba on U.S. Educational Television, 1959–1970
The Medium is the Message: The Screen Life of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1962
For decades, the iconic image of the Cuban Revolution has been set in Havana's 'Revolution Square', with thousands of Cubans thronging to hear Fidel Castro speak. This portrait undergirds a primary assumption about the Revolution: that many Cubans came to embrace it by basking in the euphoria of Fidel's live presence. For the Revolution's crucial early years, this article proposes that we should reimagine this archetypal conversion experience, se…
Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
All too often we talk about “psychiatric globalization” as a fait accompli: the inexorable spread of Western diagnostic categories, therapies, and conceptions of mind throughout the world. This sense of inevitability prevails across political divides: those affiliated with the project of global mental health applaud the arrival of biological framings to the developing world, while critics bemoan the imperialistic effects thereof. Yet both perspec…
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