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The Americas in World History

International History Research Cluster

The Americas Research Cluster brings together researchers working on national, transnational and comparative analysis of the Caribbean, the United States and Latin America and their connections to other parts of the world. Within this geographic focus, a range of fields and topics are explored including, but not limited to, international relations, empire, revolutions, settler colonialism, development, security, violence, migration, race, gender, environment, and public diplomacy.

The cluster group meets termly to workshop research, discuss emerging topics across subfields, and invite external speakers to engage in a dialogue relevant to the study of the Americas.

Spokesperson: Dr Elizabeth Ingleson

Keywords: Caribbean, Latin America, United States, empire, settler colonialism, Atlantic World, revolutions, development, post-1945, Cold War, security, public diplomacy, race, gender, international relations, inter-American system, violence, power. 

Faculty members

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Roger Buckley
Visiting Research Fellow

Research Interests:
The West and Asia, post-1945, Human Rights and Trafficking, Foreign aid and Southeast Asian int politics.


Anna Cant

Dr Anna Cant
Assistant Professor

Research interests:
Mass communication; Modern Latin American History; Rural Development


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Professor Steven Casey
Professor of International History

Research interests:
20th-Century United States


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Dr Tanya Harmer
Associate Professor

Research interests:
Latin America; Cold War


Ingleson

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
Assistant Professor

Research interests:
United States History; Chinese History; Trade; Labour; Diplomacy; Multinational Corporations


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Professor Matthew Jones
Professor of International History

Research interests:
British Foreign and Defence Policy since the Second World War; Nuclear History during the Cold War; Vietnam War; British Decolonisation and South East Asia; US Foreign Relations since 1941; Anglo-American Relations



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Dr Giuseppe Paparella
Visiting Research Fellow

Research interests: The United States in the Asia Pacific; U.S. - China Relations; International Relations Theory; Ideologies of Progress; Strategy and Security. 


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Dr Jake Subryan Richards
Assistant Professor

Research interests:
African Diaspora, Legal History, West Africa, Latin America, Caribbean



Dr Imaobong Umoren

Dr Imaobong Umoren
Associate Professor

Research interests:
Race and Gender in the Caribbean; 19th and 20th Century Wider African Diaspora

PhD Students

Selected publications

  • Molly Avery (2021) "", The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, 78:4 (2021), 553-579.
  • Molly Avery (2020) "", Journal of Latin American Studies, 52:4 (2020) (winner of JLAS Best Article Prize 2020).
  • Anna Cant (2021) . University of Texas Press, Austin, USA.
  • Nigel Ashton (2015) " The International History Review, 38:1, 24-44.
  • Steven Casey (2014) . Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
  • Steven Casey (2016) ‘,’ Foreign Affairs, 95 (January-February).
  • Steven Casey (2017) . Oxford University Press,  New York, USA, and Oxford, UK.
  • Steven Casey (2021) . Oxford University Press, New York, USA, and Oxford, UK.
  • Thomas Ellis (2020) "" European Journal of American Culture, Volume 39:3, 275 - 295.
  • Tanya Harmer (2011) . University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
  • Tanya Harmer (2020) The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  • Elizabeth Ingleson (2022) U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War: Bridging Two Eras. In Reeder, Tyson (ed.),  Routledge, New York, USA and Abogndon, UK, 341-356.
  • Victoria Phillips (2020) . Oxford University Press, New York, USA

Events

8 March 2022: (Brown University) and (City University New York) - Biographies of Interwar-Isms Seminar Series:  (co-organised with the Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War Research Cluster)

8 February 2022: (UCL) - Seminar Series, First Talk: Elites and Middle Classes: Rethinking Class Struggles in Cold War Latin America (co-organised with ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Latin America and Caribbean Centre)

October to December 2021: Seminar Series: Race, Gender and Politics in the US (co-organised with ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Phelan United States Centre)

12 October 2021: Dr Anna Cant (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History) and (UCL) - Book Launch: Land Without Masters: Agrarian Reform and Political Change Under Peru's Military Government

8 February 2021:  (Smithsonian) - Book Talk: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

30 November 2020:  (University of East Anglia) (New York University) and (University of Cambridge) - Book Talk: Whistleblowing Nation: The History of US National Security Disclosures

17 November 2020: (Duke University) - Book Talk: The Beginning of the End of the Cold War

20 October 2020: (Columbia) - Book Talk: How the United States Decided to Dominate the World

10 March 2020: (Columbia) and (Roehampton) - Book Launch: 

4 March 2020: Professor Alan McPherson (Temple University) - Book Talk: The Letelier Assassination: Human Rights against Fascism in the Americas

27 January 2020: “Crafting the Resistance: Chilean resistance then and Now” - an International History public event including a documentary screening and panel discussion on political resistance in Chile.

11 December 2019: workshop of articles by PhD student Molly Avery and PhD graduate Eline van Ommen for a forthcoming special issue on Nicaragua

30 October 2019: Dr Imaobong Umoren, Christina Ivey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Government) and Eileen Gbagbo (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International Relations) - Black History Month: 

15 May 2019: International History and LACC, workshop on "International, Transnational, and Global Histories of the Nicaraguan Revolution, 1977-1990" organised by Dr Tanya Harmer and Eline van Ommen

19 and 22 March 2019: International History and LACC,  Ernesto Dominguez López (University of Havana), lecture and seminar primarily for IH students but open to all, "Cuba-US Relations in the 21st Century"

February 2018: workshop of new research by Dr Anna Cant

May 2018: 40th Anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution, a one-day workshop sponsored by Dr Tanya Harmer and Eline van Ommen

Late Summer 2018: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International Drug Policy Unit, Universidad de Los Andes and Northwestern University to host a History Conference in Colombia

Research projects

  • Developing programming for Black History Month: Professor Matthew Jones, Dr Imaobong Umoren and Dr Padraic Scanlan - ""
  • Promoting the records housed on campus relating to Caribbean political leaders who studied at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳: Dr Imaobong Umoren

Research grants

Dr Imaobong Umoren, 2018: AHRC Network Grant on Co-Investigator project, "Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context".

The project will facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-national dialogue among scholars and activists in the fields of literary studies, history, politics, and visual culture from the UK, US, Australia, Europe, the Caribbean and Africa working on transatlantic black female intellectuals (both from an historical and contemporary perspective) in the black diaspora. The project will also work with race equality ThinkTank, the Runnymede Trust and the partnership project, History and Policy. Dr Umoren will be working with Dr Becky Fraser from UEA who is the PI.

Dr Victoria Phillips, 2017: Harriman Institute Publication Grant.

Other news

2021


 

, a special issue of the journal The Americas, is published drawing together papers exploring the international, transnational and global dimensions of the Nicaraguan Revolution. The issue grew out of a May 2019 workshop hosted by the cluster and co-sponsored by the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Latin America and Caribbean Centre and inclues papers by cluster members Dr Eline van Ommen and Molly Avery.

2019


Dr Megan Black's (Harvard University Press, 2018) won the annual (BAAS) prize for best book; the ; and the for best first book in the history of international relations from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).

Dr Anna Cant presented a paper. “Competing Visions of Peasant Mobilisation in Peru’s Agrarian Reform", at the in Paris (September 2019).


2018


Major Book Awards:

Podcast "" with Dr Tanya Harmer and Eline Van-Ommen, was released.

Dr Megan Black spearheaded debates over archival processing, .