Email: jlh201@pitt.edu

While visiting Harvard, Jesse Horst was a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at the University of Pittsburgh in residence at Harvard. His dissertation studied urban poverty and informal housing in Cuba from 1920-70, specifically focussing on social, political, and legal dynamics linked to tenement housing and shantytown neighborhoods in Havana, and with attention to broader histories of state formation, citizenship, and international technocratic trends. An article based on his MA research, entitled "Shantytown Revolution: Slum Clearance, Rent Control, and the Cuban State, 1937-55," appeared in the July 2014 issue of the Journal of Urban History.  Before beginning graduate study, Jesse Horst spent four years as a high school and middle school social studies teacher in New York City Public Schools.