Research Interests
I am interested in US foreign relations broadly construed to include diplomatic and non-state actors. My recent work on the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) reorients the field of foreign relations and demonstrates how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution functioned in working people’s lives. Through extensive field and archival research in Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo, Cuba, I analyze how Cuban base employees navigated the politics and contradictions of living in Cuba and working for the US military. My current research interests include the fields of refugee studies, human rights, and US military bases in the second half of the twentieth century