Dr. Cheryl Jimenez Frei (she/her/hers)
- Assistant Professor
- History
- Latin American and Latinx Studies
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 717, Eau Claire | Directions
- Office hours: Fall 2022:
Monday and Wednesday, 1-2PM or by appointment
Teaching Interests
- Public History
- Latin America
- Museums
- Memory Studies
Research and Creative Activities
- Argentina & the Southern Cone
- Memory & the Built Environment
- Visual culture
- Oral history
- Digital history
- Latinx History & Identity in the Midwest
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (History & Public History)
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (Latin American & Iberian Studies)
B.A. Northern Michigan University (International Studies & Journalism)
Published Research
- “Surviving, Learning, and Striving in the Times of Pandemic: Teaching with a Journal of the Plague Year: a COVID-19 Archive,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, December 2020.
- “Adapting and Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times: Teaching the JOTPY Archive,” History@Work, The National Council on Public History blog, Sept. 24, 2020.
- “Columbus, Juana, and the Politics of the Plaza: Battles over Monuments, Memory, and Identity in Buenos Aires,” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 51, (3) August 2019, pp. 607-638.
- “Towards Memory, Against Oblivion: A Comparative Perspective on Public Memory, Monuments, and Confronting a Painful Past in the US and Argentina," The Public Historian, Special Digital Issue, Sept. 2017.
- "Down Argentine Way," in Race and American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation,Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green (ABC-Greenwood, 2017), 242-244.
Honors and Recognitions
-
National Archives and the Mellon Foundation Start-Up Grant for Collaborative Digital Editions, Fall 2021. Awarded for digital history project: ¡Presente!: Documenting Latinx History in Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin Historical Society Governor’s Award for Archival Innovation, 2021. Awarded for the Western Wisconsin COVID-19 Archive
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Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest project grant, Villanova University. Awarded for Voces del Campo oral history project, 2021.
Professional Memberships
- National Council on Public History
- International Federation for Public History
- Latin American Studies Association
- Association of Latin American Art
- Conference on Latin American History
- Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
- American Historical Association
- World History Association
- Society of Architectural Historians
- Coordinating Council for Women in History