Virginia Garrard

Virginia Garrard is Director of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Among many other publications, her most recent work, co-authored with Peter Henderson and Bryan McCann, is Latin America and the Modern World. Her research interests include: historic memory and human rights during the Cold War in Latin America, archives and digital humanities, and contemporary Central American history.

Virginia Garrard is Director of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Among many other publications, her most recent work, co-authored with Peter Henderson and Bryan McCann, is Latin America and the Modern World. Her research interests include: historic memory and human rights during the Cold War in Latin America, archives and digital humanities, and contemporary Central American history. See less