Matilde Zimmermann

BA, Radcliffe College. MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison. PhD, University of Pittsburgh. Special interest in the Nicaraguan and Cuban revolutions, Che Guevara’s life and writings, labor and social movements, Atlantic history and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America, history of Latinos/as in the United States, environmental history. Author, Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Duke, 2000); Carlos Fonseca y la revolución nicaragüense (Managua, 2003); Bajo las banderas de Che y de Sandino (Havana, 2004); A Revolução Nicaragüense (São Paulo, 2005); Comandante Carlos: La vida de Carlos Fonseca Amador (Caracas, 2008). Director, Sarah Lawrence College Study Abroad program in Havana, Cuba. SLC, 2002–