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Dr Tanya Harmer

Associate Professor

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*Sabbatical Leave 2025-26*

Dr Tanya Harmer is a specialist on the Cold War in Latin America with a particular interest in the international, transnational and global dynamics of the struggle. She has written widely on Chile’s revolutionary process in the 1970s, the Cuban Revolution’s influence in Latin America, counter-revolution and inter-American diplomacy, solidarity networks, women and gender. Her latest book tells the story of Beatriz Allende and Chile’s Revolutionary Left that came of age in the shadow of the Cuban Revolution.

Dr Harmer obtained her BA at the University of Leeds before moving to the London School of Economics to do her MA and PhD in International History. Prior to being appointed as a lecturer in the department in 2009, she was an LSE fellow. She has also held visiting teaching positions at Columbia University in New York (2012-13) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2010, 2013).

In addition to being closely associated with the LSE’s new Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC), Dr Harmer is the convener of the . She has received a number of grants to support international collaborative projects on Latin America and the Cold War. Most recently, she and Dr Alberto Martín of the Instituto Mora in Mexico City organized two international conferences on and with support from the British Academy.

In 2014, Dr Harmer was awarded one of the School’s Major Review Teaching Prizes and in 2015 she won a Student-led Teaching Excellence Award for Research Support and Guidance.

In 2016/17 and 2019/20, she also one a LSE Excellence in Education award.

Other titles: Coordinator of International Partnerships

Expertise

Latin America, Cold War