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Ms Eline van Ommen

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Research Interests: Latin America, Western Europe, the Cold War, Transnational History, Solidarity, the Nicaraguan Revolution
Room: SAR.2.06
Email: e.van-ommen@lse.ac.uk

About

Ms Eline van Ommen is a PhD candidate in International History at the LSE. She holds BA in History from the University of Groningen and a MSc Empires, Colonialism, and Globalisation (with Distinction) from the LSE. Eline van Ommen currently works on international diplomacy, solidarity, and the Nicaraguan Revolution. She particularly focuses on Nicaraguan and Western European relations in the late 1970s and 1980s. The project draws on a wide range of sources, including official state documents and the archives of transnational networks.

Teaching

Ms Eline van Ommen teaches the following course at undergraduate level:

HY239: Latin America and the United States since 1898

Publications

  • Van Ommen, E., The Sandinista Revolution in the Netherlands: The Dutch Solidarity Committees and Nicaragua (1977-1990), Naveg@merica (forthcoming).

Conference Papers

  • ‘Solidaridad holandesa con Sandinista Nicaragua en los años setenta y ochenta’, University of Barcelona, November 2015
  • ‘Dutch solidarity, Sandinista Nicaragua, and the Global Cold War, ca. 1981-1983’, Brussels, May 2016
  • ‘Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Cold War: Nicaraguan and Western European relations, 1981-1982’, Rio de Janeiro, October 2016

Awards & Honours

  • LSE PhD Studentship (2016-2019)
  • VSB Fonds (2013)

 

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