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Latin America Studies Group

Study groups at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) help to promote and exchange major research and educational relationships with counterpart institutions around the world. The Latin American Studies Group is comprised of members with an interest in the region, coordinates the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution of an extensive engagement program throughout the Latin American region.

Director, Professor Paranzino

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About this Study Group

The Latin America Studies Group shares perspectives on key political, economic and security issues in the region with a focus on understanding context and providing perspective on this region of the world. The program supports theater security cooperation activities of the U.S. Southern Command, U.S. Northern Command, their naval components, and the U.S. Navy.

The study group supports a variety of regionally focused activities: conferences, war games, research projects, faculty travel to conduct lectures, workshops, and curriculum reviews, and NWC and faculty visits from the region to Newport. Additionally, the group supports the Inter-American War Game and the Multilateral War Game.

Latin America Studies Group faculty also prepare and deliver lectures and short courses at naval war colleges, defense staffs, think tanks, and civilian universities throughout the region. The knowledge gained is brought back and incorporated into the college’s core curriculum, electives, and research programs.

Signing Up

Only NWC community members can elect to join several groups with the approval of the individual program director. Please note, this group is not open to the general public.

To request more information or to sign up for the Latin America Studies Group, please email Professor Paranzino at Latin-America.Studies@usnwc.edu.

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Michelle Paranzino

Associate Professor | Strategy and Policy Department

Michelle Paranzino earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied U.S. foreign policy, Soviet history and Cold War Latin America. She has published numerous articles and book chapters and is the author of "The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War: A Short History with Documents" (Cambridge: Hackett, 2018). She grew up in Los Angeles, earning her B.A. in history at UC Santa Cruz and an M.A. in history at Cal State Northridge. She has held fellowships at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and is currently working on a book about the war on drugs.

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Tiffany A. Tat

Assistant Professor | Strategic and Operational Research Department

Tiffany Tat is an assistant professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously, she supported the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) as an INDOPACOM Intelligence Analyst and worked on political and security affairs at the National Bureau of Asian Research. She earned a Master of Arts from the War Studies Department at King’s College London.

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