Rate My Professor Renata Keller

Keller is the author of two books: Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which won the 2016 SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize, and The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War (UNC Press, 2025). Key peer-reviewed articles include “The Latin American Missile Crisis” in Diplomatic History (2015), winner of the 2016 NECLAS Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize; “Responsibility of the Great Ones: How the Organization of American States and the United Nations Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis” in Journal of Latin American Studies (2019); and “The Revolution Will Be Teletyped: Cuba’s Prensa Latina News Agency and the Cold War Contest Over Information” in Journal of Cold War Studies (2019), honorable mention for the 2020 SECOLAS Sturgis Leavitt Award. She has received research funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Philanthropic Educational Organization, Kluge Center at the U.S. Library of Congress, and American Philosophical Society. Keller serves as co-editor of the InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century book series at UNC Press and co-produced the podcast “SECOLAS Presents: The Cuban Missile Crisis, An Audiodocumentary,” sponsored by the NEH and American Historical Association. Her public scholarship appears in outlets such as The Washington Post, Time, and The Conversation.