Evelyn Jennings
Dr. Jennings is an Assistant Professor and Margaret A. Vilas Chair of Latin American History at Saint Lawrence. She received her BA in Spanish Language and Literature from SUNY Oswego, her MA in Latin American history from SUNY Stony Brook, and her PhD from the University of Rochester in Modern European and Atlantic history. Her dissertation examined state enslavement in colonial Havana, Cuba between 1760 and 1840. She has published several articles and a book chapter on this subject, the latest an essay entitled "War as the 'Forcing House of Change': State Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba" in the July 2005 issue of the journal William and Mary Quarterly. At SLU Dr. Jennings is offering courses on colonial and modern Latin American history, Atlantic history, US and Cuban relations, and on slavery and freedom in the Americas. She also teaches the CLAS introduction to Latin American studies.
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