Michelle Chase

Faculty Bio

Michelle Chase is a historian of modern Latin America, specializing in twentieth-century Cuba. Her first book, Revolution within the Revolution (UNC Press, 2015), challenged standard assumptions about women’s top-down liberation within the Cuban Revolution by showing that women activists themselves pressed the revolutionary leadership for inclusion and redress. Her co-edited book, The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family, will be published by the University of Florida Press in January 2026.

Recent publications include:

"Beyond the “Historiographical Monroe Doctrine”: The Latin American Left and the World," Latin American Research Review, vol 59, issue 3, Sept 2024.

"Picturing Solidarity: Photography and Cuban Internationalism during the Vietnam War," Trans Asia Photography 13 (1) (2023).

“Contesting the Youngest Revolution: Cuban Anti-Communists and the Global Politics of Youth, 1960-1965.” Journal of Latin American Studies (November 2021).

“Hands Off Korea: Women’s Internationalist Solidarity and Peace Activism in Early Cold War Cuba.” Journal of Women’s History 32.3 (fall 2020): 64-88.

“Revolutionary Positions: Sexuality and Gender in Cuba and Beyond.” Radical History Review 2020: 136 (2020): 1-10 (with Isabella Cosse).

PhD, New York University, 2010
History

Past Courses

HIS 107: World Civilization I
HIS 108: World History After 1650
HIS 134: Modern Latin America
HIS 196: The US-Mexico Border
HIS 231: Latin Amer: Social Chnge & Rev
HIS 232: Caribbean America
HIS 240: The US-Mexico Border
HIS 247: The Global Cold War
HIS 499: Senior Year Experience in His