Tulane University

Contact Info
jlipman@tulane.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Brown University, History, 1996.
• M.A., Yale University, History, 2001
• M.Phil., Yale University, History, 2003.
• Ph.D., Yale University, History, 2006

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2008-
• Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s College, 2006-2008

Research & Teaching Specializations: U.S. Foreign Relations, History of Empire, Cuba, Caribbean

Related Experience

• Advisor, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, 2011-
• Big Onion Tour Company, New York, NY, 2005-2006
• Graduate Employee and Student Organization (GESO), 2000-2006
• New Hampshire Democratic Party, Lebanon, NH, 2002
• NYCLU Reproductive Rights Project, 1998-2000
• US Peace Corps, St. Lucia, Eastern Caribbean, 1996-1998

Distinctions

• Constance Rourke Essay Prize for the best article published in American Quarterly 2012, 2013
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant, 2011
• General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, US Army Military History Institute, 2010
• Co-Winner, Taft Prize in Labor History, 2009
• Nota Bene Book, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
• Newcomb Fellow Travel Grant, 2009
• Committee on Research Tulane Summer Research Grant, 2009
• George Washington Egleston Prize, Yale University, 2007

Languages: Spanish; French; Creole

Selected Publications

• 2014. “A Refugee Camp in America; Fort Chaffee and Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees, 1975-1982,” Journal of American Ethnic History.
• 2013. “‘The Fish Trusts the Water, and it is in the water that it is cooked’: The Caribbean Origins of the Krome Detention Center,” Radical History Review Special Issue on “Haiti and the World.”
• 2012. “‘Give Us a Ship’: Vietnamese Repatriates on Guam, 1975,” American Quarterly 64.1: 1-31.
• 2011. “‘The Face is the Roadmap’: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980-1988,” Journal of Asian American Studies, 14.1: 33-68.
• 2009. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• 2009. “Guantánamo and the Case of Kid Chicle: Labor, Privatization, and the Law in the Expansion of US Empire.” In Transitions and Transformations in the US Imperial State. Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin.
• 2008. “Buenos Vecinos”, Ciudadanos y Súbditos: Nacionalidad y Competencia Laboral en la Base Naval de Estados Unidos en Guantánamo.” Trans. Rolando García Milián. In Memorias del VII Taller Internacional de Problemas Teóricos y Prácticos de la Historia Regional y Local (Urbana). La Habana, Cuba-Chapingo, Mexico: Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Universidad de Chapingo.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: US Empire Since 1898; US Foreign Relations Since World War II; US Foreign Relations before World War II; US Labor and Migration in the 20th Century; US Immigration

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 1