The Americas Research Cluster brings together researchers working on national, transnational and comparative analysis of the Caribbean, the United States and Latin America and their connections to other parts of the world. Within this geographic focus, a range of fields and topics are explored including, but not limited to, international relations, empire, revolutions, settler colonialism, development, security, violence, migration, race, gender, environment, and public diplomacy.
The cluster group meets termly to workshop research, discuss emerging topics across subfields, and invite external speakers to engage in a dialogue relevant to the study of the Americas.
Spokesperson: Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
Keywords: Caribbean, Latin America, United States, empire, settler colonialism, Atlantic World, revolutions, development, post-1945, Cold War, security, public diplomacy, race, gender, international relations, inter-American system, violence, power.
Roger Buckley
Visiting Research Fellow
Research Interests:
The West and Asia, post-1945, Human Rights and Trafficking, Foreign aid and Southeast Asian int politics.
Dr Anna Cant
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Mass communication; Modern Latin American History; Rural Development
Dr Tanya Harmer
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Latin America; Cold War
Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
United States History; Chinese History; Trade; Labour; Diplomacy; Multinational Corporations
Professor Matthew Jones
Professor of International History
Research interests:
British Foreign and Defence Policy since the Second World War; Nuclear History during the Cold War; Vietnam War; British Decolonisation and South East Asia; US Foreign Relations since 1941; Anglo-American Relations
Dr Giuseppe Paparella
Visiting Research Fellow
Research interests: The United States in the Asia Pacific; U.S. - China Relations; International Relations Theory; Ideologies of Progress; Strategy and Security.
Dr Jake Subryan Richards
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
African Diaspora, Legal History, West Africa, Latin America, Caribbean