2025 Workshop

Kristen Weld

Professor of History at Harvard University

Kirsten Weld is professor of history at Harvard University and a scholar of 20th-century Latin American political conflicts and social movements. Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala, won the 2015 WOLA-Duke Human Rights Book Award and the 2016 Best Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association's Recent History and Memory Section; her current project, Ruins and Glory: The Long Spanish Civil War in Latin America, examines the impact and legacies of the Spanish Civil War in the Americas from the 1930s through the present.