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First Name
Christy
Last Name
Thornton
Country
United States
State
Affiliation
New York University
Website URL
https://christy-thornton.com/
Keywords
Mexico, Latin America, Development, Political Economy, Democracy, Economics
Availability
Media Contact
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Christy Thornton is an Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is also the co-director, with Quinn Slobodian, of the History and Political Economy Project. Before coming to NYU, she earned tenure in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, where she was also the Co-Chair of the JHU Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Prior to that, she taught in History and International Studies at Rowan University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University, as well as the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, and include modern Latin American history; the history of Mexico; the history of development; Latin American political economy; global governance and international institutions; social movements; and drugs and drug wars.

Christy holds a Bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, which she attended as a Pell Grant student, as well as a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University, which was supported by a Truman Scholarship. She received her PhD in history from NYU in 2015.

Before graduate school, she was for five years the Executive Director of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), a 50-year old research and advocacy organization working on Latin American affairs and the U.S. relationship with the region, and she is currently a member of the Board of Directors there.

In addition to her scholarly work, she makes frequent media appearances and writes for popular publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nexos, Al Jazeera, The Nation, and Jacobin. She is also a radioproducer and host

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Mexico
Expertise by Geography
Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Capitalism, Diplomacy, Economic History, Government, Politics