Jessica Gibbs


BA, MPhil, Ph D Cantab Photograph of Jessica Gibbs.

Contact

Email: jcg@aber.ac.uk
Office: C44
Phone: 2667

Teaching Areas

Dr Gibbs currently teaches a Part 2 Option on ‘The Domestic Politics of United States Foreign Policy’, a Part 2 Skills module on ‘Studying Cuban History Through Film’ and a Part 1 module on ‘The Making of the American Nation, 1783-2000’.  She would be very happy to supervise postgraduate dissertations on 19th and 20th century US history, particularly US foreign policy.

Biography

Dr. Jessica Gibbs (BA, MPhil, Ph D Cantab) is a historian of twentieth century US foreign policy. Her research interests include US policy towards Latin America, particularly Cuba, and US refugee and immigration policy, and her work has focused on the links between US foreign policy decisions and domestic politics

Staff Publications

2010

  • US Policy towards Cuba: Since the Cold War, (Routledge, 2010)
  • 'The Cuban Lobby and US policy towards Cuba', in Andrew Johnstone and Helen Laville (eds.), We the People: The U.S. Public and American Foreign Policy, (Routledge, 2010), pp. 138-152

2009

  • with Alex Goodall, 'Conflict and Cooperation: Cuban Exile Anti-Communism and the United States, 1960-2000', in Ieva Zake (ed.), Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S. (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009), pp. 233-253

2007

  • 'The Cuban Adjustment Act and Migration from Cuba’, in Iwan Morgan and Philip Davis (eds.), America’s Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics(Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, 2007), pp. 288-311