Dr Molly Avery

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.

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.

‘Connecting Central America and the Southern Cone: the Chilean and Argentine response to the Nicaraguan Revolution’ The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 78:4 (2021), 553-579. 

‘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), 759-784.
- Winner of the JLAS 'Best Article Prize' 2020

Interviewed on Historias, the podcast of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, in February 2020