Kirsten Weld

I’m a professor in the History Department, where I write and teach about the history of social justice struggles in the 20th-century Americas. I grew up in Canada, I've lived in the US for the past 15 years, and I try to spend as much time in Latin America as I can. I wrote a book about Guatemalan justice activists who rescued a lost secret police archive in the hopes of providing evidence for use in war crimes trials, and I’m currently writing another one about socialism and fascism across Latin America from the 1930s through the present. I’m always happy to talk about politics, activism, music, traveling, and what it's like to come from somewhere that feels very different from Harvard!