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Fields
Latin American History
International History
Teaching
Latin American Revolutions
U.S.-Latin American Relations
International Social Movements
- PhD, University of Chicago, 1998
Education & Training
- AHA Friedrich Katz Book Prize (2019)
- Best Book Award, 19th Century Section of LASA
- Vanderwood Article Prize, Conference on Latin American History (2014)
- ACLS Fellowship (2013-14)
- NEH Fellowship (2008-09)
- NEH Fellowship (2000-01)
- Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research Grant (1995)
“The Idea of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century,” Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo (eds.), Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Routledge Press (2024).
"The Americas' in the History of IR," Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Maja Spanu, and Christian Reus-Smit (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (2023).
"Central America & the United States," Robert Holden (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Central American History (2020).
"'Our Indian Empire': The Transimperial Origins of U.S. Liberal Imperialism," Kristin Hoganson and Jay Sexton (eds.), Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain (Duke University Press, 2020)
Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule (Duke University Press, 2005)
“The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” American Historical Review 118:5 (Dec. 2013), 1345-75
