Latin American History Seminar: Cultural Pan-Americanism and Negotiated Hegemony in Early Twentieth-Century Inter-American Relations
Thursday 8 June, 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Speaker: Mark Petersen, University of Dallas
Mark Petersen received his D.Phil. in History at the University of Oxford. He taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago before joining the History faculty at UD in 2015. His specialty is Latin America, with a focus on the Southern Cone and hemispheric affairs. His dissertation was on ‘Argentine and Chilean Approaches to Modern Pan-Americanism, 1888-1930’; he is the author of ‘The Vanguard of Pan-Americanism: Inter-American Multilateralism in the Early Twentieth Century in Cooperation & Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations, ed. Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).