Renata Keller, Ph.D.

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor
Renata Keller
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Summary

I believe in the power of connection across time and space. What one person or group of people does in one place and time affects other people in different places and times in unexpected and profound ways.

I specialize in w88 live casino American and Cold War history. I am currently completing a book about how people and nations across the Americas caused, experienced, and were affected by the Cuban Missile Crisis. My first book, Mexico’s Cold w88 live casino: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution, explored how the Cuban Revolution transformed Mexico’s domestic politics and international relations. It was awarded SECOLAS's Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize and honorable mentions for RMCLAS's Thomas McGann and Michael C. Meyer Prizes.

I received my B.A. in w88 live casino and Spanish from Arizona State University and my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. I taught international relations at Boston University for five years before joining the w88 live casino Department at the University of Nevada in 2017. I have published journal articles in The Journal of Latin American w88 live casino, The Journal of Cold War w88 live casino, The Journal of Cold War History, The Latin American Research Review, Diplomatic History, Contexto Internacional, and Mexican w88 live casino/Estudios Mexicanos, as well as popular articles in w88 live casino Today and The Washington Post. My research has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Philanthropic Educational Organization, the Kluge Center at the U.S. Library of Congress, the American Philosophical Society, and other institutions. I am co-editor of InterConnections: The w88 live casino Twentieth Century, a new book series at UNC Press that is home to innovative w88 live casino, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century.

I am also a dedicated educator. I teach classes on Modern Latin American History, Cuban History, the w88 live casino Cold War, and Drugs and Security in the Americas. I also enjoy training the next generation of thinkers, historians, and history teachers in my classes on Historical Research and Writing, Historiography, Historiography of the Americas, and my graduate research seminar on Twentieth Century History.

In my free time, you can find me reading fantasy and sci-fi novels, watching soapy TV shows, gardening, cooking, and shuttling my two children between their excessive number of activities.

Specialties

  • w88 live casino America
  • Cold w88 live casino
  • International relations
  • Cuba
  • Mexico

Courses taught

  • HIST 228: Introduction to w88 live casino American History and Culture II
  • HIST 229: Drugs and Security in the Americas
  • HIST 300: Historical Research and Writing
  • HIST 346: w88 live casino of Cuba
  • HIST 407/607: w88 live casino Cold War
  • HIST 440A/640A: The Cuban Revolution
  • HIST 723: Research Seminar in Twentieth Century w88 live casino
  • HIST 781: Historiography of the Americas
  • HIST 783: Historiography

Books

  • Nuclear Reactions: w88 live casino America and the Cuban Missile Crisis (forthcoming, UNC Press, 2025)
  • Mexico's Cold w88 live casino: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
    • Winner, 2016 SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize
    • Honorable Mention, 2016 RMCLAS Thomas McGann Book Prize
    • Honorable Mention, 2018 RMCLAS Michael C. Meyer Prize for Best Book on Mexican w88 live casino in a Five-year Period

Refereed journal articles

  • “Responsibility of the Great Ones: How the Organization of w88 live casino States and the United Nations Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Journal of Latin American w88 live casino 51:4 (November 2019), 883-904
  • “The Revolution Will Be Teletyped: Cuba’s Prensa Latina News Agency and the Cold w88 live casino Contest Over Information,” Journal of Cold War w88 live casino 21, no. 3 (Summer 2019), 88-113
    • Honorable Mention, 2020 SECOLAS Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article
  • “Fan Mail to Fidel: The Cuban Revolution and Mexican Solidarity,” Mexican w88 live casino/Estudios Mexicanos 33, no. 1 (February 2017), 6-31
  • “The w88 live casino American Missile Crisis,” Diplomatic w88 live casino 39:2 (April 2015), 195-222
    • Winner, 2016 NECLAS Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize
  • “Building ‘Nuestra América:’ National Sovereignty and Regional Integration in the Americas,” Contexto Internacional, 35, no. 2 (2013), 537-564
  • “A Foreign Policy for Domestic Consumption: Mexico’s Lukewarm Defense of Castro, 1959-1969,” The w88 live casino American Research Review 47, no. 2 (Summer 2012), 100-119
  • “The Martyrdom of Monseñor Angelelli: The Popular Creation of Martyrs in Twentieth-Century Argentina,” The Journal of Religion & Society, 12 (2010)

Book chapters

  • “Testing the Limits of Censorship? Política Magazine and Mexico’s ‘Perfect Dictatorship,’ 1960-1967,” in Journalism, Censorship, and Satire in Mexico, ed. Benjamin Smith, Paul Gillingham, and Michael Lettieri (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), 221-235
  • “Don Lázaro Rises Again: Heated Rhetoric, Cold Warfare, and the 1961 w88 live casino American Peace Conference” in Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow: New Histories of w88 live casino America’s Cold War, ed. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Lawrence, and Julio Moreno (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013), 129-149

Other publications/projects (selected)

  • “The Cuban Missile Crisis Offers Lessons for Diplomacy Today—If We Listen,” co-author with Michelle Paranzino, The Washington Post Made by w88 live casino section, October 22, 1962
  • “Rockets Here, In Our Pretty Little Cuba: The View from the Epicenter of the Cuban Missile Crisis,” w88 live casino Today, 72, no. 10 (October 2022), p. 28-41
  • “Research Note: The Cuban Missile Crisis and a w88 live casino of Words in Argentina,” Journal of Cold War w88 live casino, 22:4 (October 2022), 521-528
  • Co-Producer, “Historias” Podcast Audio Documentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the w88 live casino Historical Association
  • “From One Disaster to Another? Mexico’s Cold w88 live casino and the w88 live casino on Drugs,” North American Congress on w88 live casino America (NACLA) Blog (March 22, 2016)
  • “Mexico: From Cold w88 live casino to Drug w88 live casino,” The Strategy Bridge (September 30, 2015), reposted in The National Interest (October 1, 2015)
  • “Stamps, Rum, and Hand Grenades: Fidel Castro’s Recipe for Revolution,” Wilson Center Cold War International w88 live casino Project e-Dossier, 66 (September 29, 2015)

Prizes

  • Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article, Honorable Mention, Southeastern Council of Latin American w88 live casino (2020)
  • Michael C. Meyer Book Prize, Special Commendation, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American w88 live casino (2018)
  • Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize, Southeastern Council of Latin American w88 live casino (2016)
  • Thomas McGann Book Prize, Honorable Mention, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American w88 live casino (2016)
  • Joseph T. Criscenti Article Prize, New England Council of Latin American w88 live casino (2016)
  • Edward H. Moseley Paper Prize, Southeastern Council of Latin American w88 live casino (2009)

Curriculum vitae