Isabel Alvarez-Echandi

Dr. Isabel Alvarez-Echandi holds a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University-Bloomington, U.S. She has long experience in academic teaching, research, writing, editing, and public history. She currently teaches at the School of History and is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC) at Universidad de Costa Rica. Her work focuses on Cold War Latin America, especially the U.S. and Costa Rica. She traces the intellectual and transnational connections that shaped state-making, political power, and labor movements in the Americas in the middle of the 20th century.

Alvarez-Echandi has worked at the prestigious American Historical Review (AHR) and at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). She has received several notable scholarships to support her research and writing, such as the HASTAC Scholar Fellowship and the Mendel Fellowship (U.S.)