Personal Statement:

Cheryl Jiménez Frei is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she teaches public history, Latin American history, and world history courses. She completed her doctorate in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018, and is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the intersections between politics, identity, memory, monuments, and the built environment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1810 to the present.

Dissertation Title:“Shaping and Contesting the Past: Monuments, Memory, and Identity in Buenos Aires, 1811- present”

 Faculty Advisor(s):Sarah Cline
David Rock
James F. Brooks
Randy Bergstrom
Harold Marcuse
Jeanette Favrot Peterson