Book talk: "Latin America's Democratic Crusade", with Allen Wells

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Allen Wells, Bowdoin College, on his research and new book Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s (Yale University Press, 2023).

Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he offered a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Professor Wells has received numerous prestigious grants, including from the Mellon Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). 

This is an FYO event. Free and open to the public.

This event is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, and the Department of History.