Beyond the Eagle's Shadow: New Histories of Latin America's Cold War

Contributors

321 Contributors 5 K. Cheasty Anderson is completing her PhD in history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is writing her dissertation about health reform in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, during the 1980s Sandinista era. Giovanni Batz is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his master’s degree in Latin American Studies. His thesis, “Expressions of Maya Identity and Culture in Los Angeles: Coloniality of Power, Resistance, and Cultural Memory,” examines how the children of Guatemalan Mayas self-identify and express their identity and culture in the United States. His dissertation will examine indigenous political mobilization against a hydroelectric dam among the Ixil-Maya in Cotzal, Guatemala. Jonathan C. Brown is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published four single-authored books: A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1860 (1979), which was awarded the Bolton Prize; Oil and Revolution in Mexico (1993); Latin America: A Social History of the Colonial Period (2nd ed., 2005); and A Brief History of Argentina (2nd ed., 2009). He also edited a collection of essays on workers and populism in Latin America and has coedited books on the Mexican oil industry and on Argentine social history. He is currently writing a manuscript on the Cuban Revolution. Seth Garfield is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988 (2001) and In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region (2013). Contributors 322 Virginia Garrard-Burnett is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She has written more than two dozen articles on Central American history and on religion in Latin America. Her most recent monograph is Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala Under General Efraín Rios Montt, 1982–1983 (2010). She is currently coeditor of the Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America and is completing a manuscript on contemporary Christianity in Latin America. Bonar L. Hernández is an assistant professor of history at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and writing cover various topics of Central American history and the history of religion in Latin America. He is currently at work on a history of the Catholic Action movement in Guatemala before and after the Second Vatican Council. Jennifer T. Hoyt is an assistant professor of Latin American History at Berry College. Her research interests range from the Cold War in Latin America to the urban and environmental history of the region. Her current project explores the broad social agenda of the last military dictatorship in Argentina and its efforts to transform and control Buenos Aires through the built environment. James Jenkins is a doctoral student in history at the University of Texas at Austin and a Ford Foundation fellow. He is a member of Walpole Island First Nation, where he works as a research advisor. His dissertation concerns issues of Native identity and belonging in the Great Lakes borderlands. Renata Keller is an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University. She is currently writing a book on Mexico’s relations with Cuba and the United States. She has presented her work on Latin American history in a number of articles as well as at regional, national, and international conferences. Mark Atwood Lawrence is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to Vietnam (2005) and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2008), as well as articles and chapters on the history of the Cold War. He is also coeditor of The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis (2007) and Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History (2013). Contributors 323 Alan McPherson is a professor of international and area studies, ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American studies, and founder and director of the Center for the Americas at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (2003) and Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America Since 1945 (2006). He has also edited...