Jedrek Mularski

Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
M.Ed. Harvard University
B.A. Williams College

Research Interests

• Latin America/Latin American History
• Music and popular culture
• Cold War culture and politics
• Chilean history

Courses Taught

• History 4: World History to 1750
• History 5: World History from 1750
• History 27: Latin America: Pre-European to Independent Nationhood
• History 28: Latin America: Latin America: 1800 to the Present
• History 29: Film and History in Latin America
• History 30: History of Mexico
• History 33: Political and Social History of Chicanos/as
• Humanities 30BH: Power, Representation, and Resistance
• Humanities 31BH: Anti-Imperialism, Social Movements, & Transnational Solidarity
• Study Abroad in Cuba

Sample Research

• Music, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin America: Chile During the Cold War Era (Cambria Press:  www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604978889.cfm )
• "Todos Juntos: Hippies, Rock Music, and the Popular Unity Era" (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies)
• "Singing Huasos: Politics, Chilenidad, and Music from 1910-1950" (A Contracorriente)
• "Mr. Simpático: Dean Reed, Pop Culture, and the Cold War in Chile" (Music and Politics)
• "Unearthing the Past: The Exhumation of Icons and Historical Memory in Chile" (ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America)
• "Mexican or Chilean: Mexican Ranchera Music and Chilean Nationalism" (Studies in Latin American Popular Culture)
• "La República Independiente de Magallanes: Music and Politics in Chilean Patagonia During the Cold War" (Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) 
• "Music and Chile's Democratic Crisis: Song and the Formation of Political Identities, 1940-1973" (Ph.D. Dissertation)

Personal Interests

• Travel
• Soccer, Surfing, and Hiking
• Music and Film
• (hopelessly) Cheering for Chicago's professional sports teams