I am the author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, which was published by Harvard University Press in October 2015 and won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini book prize from the Latin American Studies Association. I am currently the associate chair of the History Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I teach primarily in Latin American history and U.S. foreign relations. Previously, I was a professor of the U.S. and the World at the University of Texas at El Paso, taught in the political economy program and history department at Berkeley, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2011, graduating with distinction.
In addition to my academic research and writing, I am a contributing editor at the New Republic, where I regularly contribute book reviews, and am a member of the editorial board of Dissent magazine. In addition to those publications, I have also written for The New York Times, The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Baffler, among other places. In Spanish, I write regularly for Nueva Sociedad about U.S. politics, and have also written for Letras Libres, Nexos, and Horizontal.
In general, my research interests include the politics of culture and intellectuals, socialism and democracy, and poverty and inequality. My current book-in-progress is an examination of the relationship between the social sciences and the Ford Foundation in Cold War Latin America. The project has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am particularly interested in how social scientists understood questions of poverty, development, and inequality.
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