Jenna Gibbs had a 20+ year career in theater and theater education before returning to higher education to complete her Ph.D. in history at UCLA and coming to FIU in 2009. Professor Gibbs’ research interests are situated in the Atlantic world in the long revolutionary era (1750s-1850s) and she is broadly interested in the transnational interrelationship of culture and politics, as well as imperial/indigenous relations.