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About Katie Coldiron
I am a cultural heritage professional and doctoral student in history at Florida International University in Miami, FL. My interests are Latin American and Caribbean history, modern U.S. History, intellectual history, and Cold War history. I work as the Outreach Program Manager of the Digital Library of the Caribbean at the FIU Libraries.Katie Coldiron is based at Florida International University. She is Outreach Program Manager for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (https://dloc.com/) at FIU Libraries and doctoral student in the FIU Department of History.
NBN Episodes hosted by Katie:
September 17, 2024
Populista
Today I talked to Will Grant about his book Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman (Bloomsbury, 2021). or more than six decade…
September 13, 2024
The Subject of Revolution
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 202…
May 12, 2024
State of Disaster
Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and…
May 4, 2024
The Sandinista Revolution
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as so…
April 6, 2024
Cold War Country
Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history revea…
April 5, 2024
Only a Few Blocks to Cuba
In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024), Mauricio Cas…
March 2, 2024
Nicaragua Must Survive
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, 2023) tells the story of the Sandin…
February 16, 2024
Cuban Cultural Heritage
Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation (UP of Florida, 2018) explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in …
January 28, 2024
Until I Find You
The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenou…
January 21, 2024
Offshore Attachments
Chelsea Schields's book Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (U California Press, 2023) reveals how the contested management of sex…
January 9, 2024
The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Cur…
October 13, 2023
The House on G Street
In The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga (NYU Press, 2023), award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single f…
August 20, 2023
Circulating Culture
“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutati…
August 17, 2023
The Making of Florida's Universities
In The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (UP of Florida, 2023), Carl Van Ness describes t…