Denisa Jashari
Assistant Professor, History Department
Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Courses
HST 300: The Cold War in Latin America
HST 322/LAS 322: Colonial Latin America
HST 323: Modern Latin America
HST 803: Theories and Philosophies of History
Highest degree earned
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2020
Bio
Denisa Jashari is a historian of modern Latin America, focusing on twentieth century Chilean urban and social history. She is currently working on her first book manuscript tentatively titled, “Santiago’s Urban Battleground: Space and the Production of the Working Poor in Chile, 1872-1994.” The manuscript argues that the production of pobladores (poor, urban dwellers) as a social category was a fraught historical and spatial process. This category was used and mobilized both by the elites and the working poor themselves to advance political aims. It reveals the multiple historical processes that produced the urban poor, converting them over time into the central problem urban politics sought to resolve under wildly divergent political regimes from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries.
Blending grassroots dimensions of urban struggle with municipal and national contestations reveals as much about the political culture of the urban poor as it does about the state’s use of urban space as a tool of governance. This research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, the American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and more.
Prior to joining Syracuse University, Jashari taught at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2020. Jashari earned a B.S. in biochemistry and Hispanic studies from Trinity College, and an M.A. in history and Latin American studies from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Areas of Expertise
Modern Latin America, urban history, social history, Chile, social movements, the Cold War
Research Grant Awards and Projects
Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, 2021
Indiana University Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, 2021
College Educators Research Fellowship, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, 2021
Future Faculty Teaching Fellow at Butler University, 2019-2020
Doris G. Quinn Foundation Fellowship, 2017-2018
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2016-2017
Publications
“The Urban and Beyond in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 57, no. 3 (2022): 730-740.