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Eline van Ommen

PhD Alumna
Department of International History

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Dr Eline van Ommen is a PhD alumna. She holds BA in History from the University of Groningen and a MSc Empires, Colonialism, and Globalisation (with Distinction) from the LSE. Dr van Ommen works on the international history of the Nicaraguan Revolution (1977-1990). Her PhD project, "Sandinistas Go Global: Nicaragua and Western Europe, 1977-1990", drew on a wide range of sources, including official state documents and the archives of transnational networks from Nicaragua, Western Europe, and the United States.

Dr van Ommen was awarded the Michael Dockrill Memorial Thesis Prize for 2021.

Expertise

Latin America, Western Europe, Cold War, transnational history, solidarity, Nicaraguan Revolution

  • ‘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
  • ‘Isolating Somoza in the International Arena, Sandinista diplomacy in Western Europe, 1977-1979’, UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, Santa Barbara, April 2017
  • ‘Nicaragua and Western Europe: Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the global Cold War’, Wuppertal, July 2017