Summary
Renata Keller is a Latin Americanist who focuses on the Cold War and international history. Her first book, Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2015) was awarded SECOLAS's Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize and honorable mentions for RMCLAS's Thomas McGann and Michael C. Meyer Prizes. Her second book, tentatively titled Nuclear Reactions: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War in Latin America, is a hemispheric history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Her articles include pieces in The Journal of Latin American Studies, The Journal of Cold War Studies, The Latin American Research Review, Diplomatic History and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and her 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. Keller teaches classes on modern Latin American history, Cuban history, the Cold War, U.S.-Latin American relations and drugs and security in the Americas.
Specialties:
- Latin America
- Cold War
- International relations
- Cuba
- Mexico
Class Materials
- HIST 228: Introduction to Latin American History and Culture
- HIST 226: Popular Culture and History: Drugs and Security in the Americas
- HIST 498/698: History of Cuba
Books
- 2015 Mexico's Cold War: 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 History in a Five-year Period
Refereed journal articles
- 2019 “Responsibility of the Great Ones: How the Organization of American States and the United Nations Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Journal of Latin American Studies 51:4 (November 2019), 883-904
- 2019 “The Revolution Will Be Teletyped: Cuba’s Prensa Latina News Agency and the Cold War Contest Over Information,” Journal of Cold War Studies 21, no. 3 (Summer 2019), 88-113
- Honorable Mention, 2020 SECOLAS Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article
- 2017 “Fan Mail to Fidel: The Cuban Revolution and Mexican Solidarity,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 33, no. 1 (February 2017), 6-31
- 2015 “The Latin American Missile Crisis,” Diplomatic History 39:2 (April 2015), 195-222
- Winner, 2016 NECLAS Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize
Book chapters
- 2019 “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
Courses taught
- HIST 228: Introduction to Latin American History and Culture II
- HIST 229: Drugs and Security in the Americas
- HIST 300: Historical Research and Writing
- HIST 346: History of Cuba
- HIST 407/607: Global Cold War
- HIST 440A/640A: Cuban Revolution
- HIST 783: Historiography
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
- M.A., History, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
- B.A., History, Arizona State University, 2004
- B.A., Spanish, Arizona State University, 2004