Thomas C. Field Jr.

Thomas C. Field Jr. (PhD, 2011, London School of Economics) is Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies and Global Affairs at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence. He is author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era (Cornell University Press, 2014), which won the Thomas McGann Award from the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies. Field has also been awarded the Unterberger Dissertation and the Bernath Article Prizes from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and his research has received grants and fellowships from the Marshall Foundation, the Kennedy and Johnson Library Foundations, and New York University's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War. He is currently writing a book on the impact of Che Guevara's 1967 death on the radicalization of Bolivia and the larger Third World movement.