Nolan Leads Book Talk on Our Time is Now
On March 2, 2021, Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, led a book talk with Julie Gibbings, Lecturer in the History of the Americas at the University of Edinburgh, about her new book Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala. The event was organized by the Latin American History Seminar at the Institute for Historical Research.
During the event, Nolan and Gibbings discussed the key findings of the book, what motivated Gibbings’ research and the history of race and Latino-Mayan conflict in the region.
A recording of the lecture can be viewed below.
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. Read more about Professor Nolan on her faculty profile.