Becoming the Tupamaros: Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments Researching and writing Becoming the Tupamaros was an exciting and at times challenging process. I received the help of many wonderful people while writing this book. Furthermore, the overseas and in country research I conducted for this project would not have been possible without outside support. Special thanks to the Graduate School at Florida State University for awarding me a research fellowship for the Spring and Summer semesters of 2009. This fellowship allowed me to conduct research in Uruguay and Argentina. I also was able to explore the US side of solidarity in both 2007 and 2008 because of the Mary Lily Research Grant from Duke University . Thanks especially to Kelly Wooten at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, for supporting my work. My time as a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College in 2010–2011 allowed me to deepen this project by accessing the archives at Amherst College. At the Center I met many people who passionately supported this project. Thanks especially to Elizabeth (EB) Lehman and Laura Lovett for believing in my project enough to invite me to the FCWSRC. Megan Elias, Glenda Nieto-Cuebas, Japonica Saracino-Brown, you went out of the way to help me and showed an incredible amount of enthusiasm for my work. During this time I also got to know a wonderful community of scholars that included Karin Ekström, Amy Mittleman, Jennifer Hamilton , Johanna Hiitola, Minna Nikunen, and Ceyda Kuloğlu-Karsli. I will never forget these amazing, helpful, and fun cohorts! I would also like to thank Robinson Herrera for his input and help concerning this project and its development. A special thanks to Eli Bortz, my editor at Vanderbilt, for his unfaltering support of this manuscript. Thanks to all of my new and wonderful colleagues at the University Becoming the Tupamaros viii of Central Oklahoma for giving me the best job ever. I appreciate Jeff Plaks, Katrina Lacher, Patricia Loughlin, Tim Tillman, and Lindsey Osterman for going out of their way to make me feel included in this new community. Also, thank you to my students, many of whom have shown a great deal of enthusiasm for this project. My family and friends have helped me immensely throughout this process. Thank you, Mom, Dad, and Nana for being the most loving and encouraging family imaginable. I honestly could not have done this without you. I appreciate the emotional support and encouragement offered to me throughout the years by Jessica Marion. Thanks also to Eileen O’Hara. Last but definitely not least, thank you Jeremy Holcombe for being there every step of the way. Becoming the Tupamaros ...