Henry Large

Henry is a DPhil candidate in Area Studies (Latin America) at Brasenose College. His research concerns the history of China and Taiwan's competition for diplomatic relations in Latin America. Before the DPhil, he completed an MPhil in Latin American Studies at Oxford and a bachelor's in Spanish and History at Yale University, where his thesis won the Spanish Department's Bildner Prize for the best essay written in Spanish. His MPhil thesis was a historical study of Panama's relations with China and the U.S. and included 3 months of fieldwork in Washington D.C. and Panama spent consulting archives and interviewing policymakers. He has previously worked for an NGO in Guatemala and undertaken archival research in Peru.

His supervisor is Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó.