The Americas in World History

• Charlotte Eaton
• Fionntan O’Hara

• Molly Avery (2021) "Connecting Central America and the Southern Cone: the Chilean and Argentine Revolution", The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, 78:4 (2021), 553-579.
• Molly Avery (2020) "Promoting a 'Pinochetazo': The Chilean Dictatorship's Foreign Policy in El Salvador during the Carter Years, 1977-81", Journal of Latin American Studies, 52:4 (2020) (winner of JLAS Best Article Prize 2020).
• Anna Cant (2021) Land without Masters: Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Goverment. University of Texas Press, Austin, USA.
• Nigel Ashton (2015) "Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace? Anglo-American Relations and the Road to United Nations Security Council Resolution 242". The International History Review, 38:1, 24-44.
• Steven Casey (2014) When soldiers fall: how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan. Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
• Steven Casey (2016) ‘When Congress Gets Mad,’ Foreign Affairs, 95 (January-February).
• Steven Casey (2017) The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press,  New York, USA, and Oxford, UK.
• Steven Casey (2021) The War Beat, Asia: The American Media at War against Japan. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, and Oxford, UK.
• Thomas Ellis (2020) "Curating the Space Race, Celebrating Cooperation: Exhibiting Space Technology during 1970s Détente" European Journal of American Culture, Volume 39:3, 275 - 295.
• Tanya Harmer (2011) Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War. University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
• Tanya Harmer (2020) Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America. 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 History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Routledge, New York, USA and Abogndon, UK, 341-356.
• Victoria Phillips (2020) Martha Graham's Cold War. The Dance of American Diplomacy. Oxford University Press, New York, USA

8 March 2022: Dr Samuel Zipp (Brown University) and Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook (City University New York) - Biographies of Interwar-Isms Seminar Series: One World: Wendell Willkie, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Quest for a United World (co-organised with the Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War Research Cluster)

8 February 2022: Professor Ricardo López-Pedreros (UCL) - Seminar Series, First Talk: Elites and Middle Classes: Rethinking Class Struggles in Cold War Latin America (co-organised with LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre)

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

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

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

30 November 2020: Dr Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia) Dr Hannah Gurman (New York University) and Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) - Book Talk: Whistleblowing Nation: The History of US National Security Disclosures

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

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

10 March 2020: Dr Victoria Phillips (Columbia) and Dr Stacey Prickett (Roehampton) - Book Launch: Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy

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 (LSE Government) and Eileen Gbagbo (LSE International Relations) - Black History Month: Négritude: From Poetry to Politics

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: LSE International Drug Policy Unit, Universidad de Los Andes and Northwestern University to host a History Conference in Colombia

• Developing programming for Black History Month: Professor Matthew Jones, Dr Imaobong Umoren and Dr Padraic Scanlan - "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): The Life of a Black British Composer"
• Promoting the records housed on campus relating to Caribbean political leaders who studied at LSE: Dr Imaobong Umoren

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.

2021

'Internationalising Revolution', 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 LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre and inclues papers by cluster members Dr Eline van Ommen and Molly Avery.

2019

Dr Megan Black's The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2018) won the annual British Association for American Studies (BAAS) prize for best book; the George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in environmental history in 2018; and the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize 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 European Rural History Organisation Conference in Paris (September 2019).

2018

Major Book Awards:

• Dr Padraic Scanlan wins American Historical Association book prize
• Professor Steve Casey wins American Journalism Historians Association prize

Podcast "The Left in Latin America" with Dr Tanya Harmer and Eline Van-Ommen, was released.

Dr Megan Black spearheaded debates over archival processing, "The U.S. Department of the Interior's request to destroy files with the National Archives and Records Administration".