Stella Krepp

Fields of Expertise

Biography

I completed by PhD at Cambridge University in 2013 with a thesis on 'American Narratives in the Organization of American States, 1941-1982' which I have reworked into a book titled 'The Decline of the Western Hemisphere: A History of Inter-American Relations since 1941', currently under review at Cambridge University Press. I recently won the annual D.C. Watt Prize from the Transatlantic Studies Association for the paper 'A View from the South: the Falklands/Malvinas and Latin America' that was based on a book chapter.

Since 2013, I have been working at the section of Iberian and Latin American History at Bern University. In my second-book project I will be examining how ideas and models of development in the 1950s and 1960s were diffused and adapted in the Americas and how Latin American ideas of development shaped global debates in turn. With a specific focus on the Brazil, Cuba, and the British Caribbean, it aims to provide a comprehensive account that bridges language and disciplinary barriers. Through the prism of development it aims to relate how Latin Americans inserted itself into the Third World and how Latin American efforts to overcome underdevelopment ultimately led to the creation of institutions, such as the United Nations Conference of Trade and Development in 1964. Yet, while often political interest overlapped, there were many moments where Latin American political aims also diverged with wider efforts in the emerging Third World.

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