Seth Fein
Assistant Professor
Office: HGS 208
Phone: (203) 432-1352
Email: seth.fein@yale.edu
Seth Fein's research and teaching focus on the United States and the world, the crossborder Americas, and audiovisual culture. His book, Transnational Projections: The United States in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, will be published by Duke. His current projects are a collection of essays, The Idea of the Western Hemisphere, which includes a study of the Pan American Highway, and a book and film about U.S. foreign policy's use of Latin American television in the 1960s. Fein has commented on Washington's post-9/11 use of TV in the Middle East and consulted on historical documentaries about moving images; he appears in the BBC’s The Thirties in Colour (2008).
Fein did his B.A. at Cornell University and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. Among the grants that have supported his work are awards from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include: "Producing the Cold War in Mexico: The Public Limits of Covert Communications" in In From the Cold: Political and Cultural Dimensions of the Latin American Cold War (2008); "Proyectando la relación especial: México-Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fría" in ¿Somos especiales? Las relaciones de México y Gran Bretaña con Estados Unidos (2006); "New Empire into Old: Making Mexican Newsreels the Cold War Way," Diplomatic History 28.5 (2004); “Culture across Borders in the Americas,” History Compass 1.1 (2003); chapters in Culture and International History (2003), Fragments of a Golden Age (2001), Visible Nations (2000), Mexico's Cinema (1999), Close Encounters of Empire (1998), Horizontes del segundo siglo (Guadalajara, 1998), México-Estados Unidos, encuentros y desencuentros en el cine (Mexico City, 1996); and articles in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 17, Objeto Visual 7, Nuevo Texto Crítico 10.21, Film-Historia 4.2, Secuencia 34, Historia y grafía 4.
A recipient of Yale’s Graduate Mentor Award, Professor Fein offers graduate research and reading seminars on Culture in U.S. International and Transnational Histories. His undergraduate courses actively engage multimedia primary sources, for which he received Yale's McCredie Fellowship for innovation in instructional technology. He teaches a lecture course on U.S. International History in the 20th Century and seminars on Film and History and the Idea of the Western Hemisphere, which received Yale’s Poorvu Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary teaching.
