Thomas Field Jr.

Thomas Field (PhD, London School of Economics) is Professor of Social Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where he teaches history and international relations.  He is author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era (Cornell UP, 2014), which won the annual Thomas McGann Book Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.  Field’s research on US foreign policy and contemporary Latin American history has appeared in Diplomatic History and the Journal of Latin American Studies, receiving the 2012 Bernath Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the 2021 Cherny Article Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.  Most recently, he co-edited, with Stella Krepp and Vanni Pettinà, Latin America and the Global Cold War (UNC Press, 2020).