Dr Tanya Harmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of International History at the LSE. Her research focuses on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean during the twentieth century and the impact of the Cold War in the region. Her first book, Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (2011) examined Chile's international history during the early 1970s and its place within the Americas, paying particular attention to Cuban, Brazilian and US involvement in the country leading up to the 1973 coup. In her subsequent work, she has examined the Cuban Revolution's influence in Latin America, the history of revolution and transnational guerrilla movements in the 1960s, US relations with dictatorial regimes and the rise of a global Chilean solidarity campaign in the 1970s. Dr Harmer has worked collaboratively with historians at a number of Latin American institutions to organise international conferences on various aspects of Cold War Latin America in the past, including the Pontificia Universidad Católicia de Chile and the Universidad de Santiago Chile, the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro and the Instituto Mora in Mexico City. She has also held teaching positions at Columbia University in New York (2012-13) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2010, 2013).