Dr. Cheryl A. Jiménez Frei's recent tenure and promotion!

Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl A. Jiménez Frei on her recent achievement of tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Her exceptional dedication, scholarly contributions, and continued engagement with the community do not go unnoticed. We are deeply proud of the work she has accomplished and look forward to all that she will continue to pursue. Please see below to learn more about Dr. Cheryl A. Jiménez Frei’s scholarship and professional contributions.

Biography

Dr. Cheryl Ana Jiménez Frei’s research focuses on memory, the built environment, monuments, visual and material culture in Argentina and the Southern Cone. She teaches courses in Public, Latin American, and Global History. A core member of the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective, she is helping lead a multi-year, grant-funded project to create a digital site preserving and sharing Latinx history in Wisconsin. She co-founded the award-winning Western Wisconsin COVID-19 Archive and Voces del Campo/Rural Voices, an oral history project highlighting Latinx experiences in rural western Wisconsin. Her collaborations include work with the National Park Service, local museums, and bilingual digital exhibits on public health history. Nationally and internationally active, she serves on advisory boards, publishes in leading journals, and engages public audiences through media, forums, and podcasts. Dr. Jiménez Frei is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Carved, Cast, and Contested: Monuments, Memory, and Identity in Argentina.”

Recent Publications

Jiménez Frei, Cheryl, and Shane Carlson. "Surviving, learning, and striving in the times of pandemic: Teaching with a journal of the plague year: An archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY)." Collections 17, no. 3 (2021): 255-266.

Jiménez Frei, Cheryl. "Towards Memory, Against Oblivion: A Comparative Perspective on Public Memory, Monuments, and Confronting a Painful Past in the United States and Argentina." The Public Historian, Special Virtual Issue: Monuments, Memory, Politics, and Our Publics (2017).

Jiménez Frei, Cheryl . "Columbus, Juana and the Politics of the Plaza: Battles over Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires." Journal of Latin American Studies 51, no. 3 (2019): 607-638.

Decker, J., & Jiménez Frei, C. (2022, September 24). Adapting and finding meaning in uncertain times: Teaching the Jotpy Archive. National Council of Public History. https://ncph.org/history-at-work/teaching-the-jotpy-archive/