Jedrek Mularski

Title: World History Instructor
Department: Social Sciences
Division: Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Organization: Saddleback College
Phone: (949)582-4368
Alt Phone: (949) 582-4368
Email: jmularski@saddleback.edu
Website: http://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/jmularski

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

Study Abroad Programs

• Saddleback College Study Abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico (summer semesters)
  • https://www.saddleback.edu/study-abroad/oaxaca-mexico

Courses Taught

• History 4: World History to 1750
• History 5: World History from 1750
• History 27: Latin America: PreEuropean 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
• Humanities 10A & 10B (Honors Program)

Sample Research

• Music, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin America: Chile During the Cold War Era (Cambria Press:  www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604978889.cfm )
• "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