Keller Receives SECOLAS Book Award

Renata Keller, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently awarded the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) Alfred B. Thomas Book Award for her book, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution.

The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award is given annually for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous year.

“I was surprised and delighted,” Keller said on winning the award. “It’s very exciting to find out that something I worked so hard on for many years has been well-received by my peers.”

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