Rachel Hynson

Ph.D. Student
hynson@email.unc.edu

Major Field: Latin American/Caribbean History

Other Fields: Cuban History, Gender Studies

Advisor: Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Research Interests: 

In my current research, I explore changing perceptions and enactments of sexuality after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.  

For my Master’s thesis, I examined the Havana Casa de Dementes as a symbol of progress and modernity in mid-nineteenth century Cuba.  I argued that in this asylum, colonial physicians both adopted and revised U.S. and European understandings of mental illness as solely a medical condition.