Nolan Gives Talk at Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave an October 31, 2019 talk at the Yale Macmillan Center Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies as part of the Latin American History Speaker Series.
Nolan’s talk was entitled “Adoptions as a Form of Political Violence: Guatemala 1982-1986.”
Rachel Nolan is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research focuses on political violence, Central American civil wars, childhood and the family, historical memory, and U.S.-Latin American relations. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of international adoption from Guatemala. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the ACLS/Mellon Foundation. Dr. Nolan holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University and a doctorate in Latin American and Caribbean History from New York University. Her dissertation won a Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award and NYU’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Humanities.