Join us for a presentation by Dr. Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr. Professor Emeritus, Bowdoin College, who will discuss his research and new book Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s (Yale University Press, 2023).

Allen Wells came to Bowdoin in 1988 after teaching nine years in North Carolina. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he teaches a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history.

This is an FYO event. Free and open to the public.