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School of History

Dr Molly Avery

Lecturer in Cold War History

Email: m.avery@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I joined QMUL as Lecturer in Cold War History in 2022 after completing my PhD in International History at the London School of Economics. I am a historian of modern Latin America, focusing on the Cold War and the transnational Right.

Research

Research Interests:

I am a historian of modern Latin America, focusing on the Cold War and the transnational Right. My work is concerned with two sub-regions of Latin America, the Southern Cone and Central America, and the connections between them in the 1970s and 1980s. I am currently working on my first book manuscript, tentatively titled 'The Latin American Anticommunist International: Chile, Argentina and Central America, 1977-1984'. Building on my PhD research, this book will explore the Chilean and Argentine military dictatorships' involvement in the counterinsurgencies in El Salvador and Guatemala in this period.

Besides this project, I am also interested in the history of inter-American relations and the history of the 'third wave' of democratisation in Latin America.

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