Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations

Professor Dana Frank

Monday, June 3, 2013

Topic: The U.S. and Post-Coup Honduras: A Human Rights Disaster

Dana Frank is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of several books, including  Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, and Bananeras:  Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, which focuses on Honduras.  Her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as in the Washington Post and other venues.  She is a former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon, and has received three major fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.    Since the June 2009 military coup her articles about Honduras have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ForeignAffairs.com, San Francisco Chronicle, San José Mercury-News, and many other publications, and regularly in The Nation magazine, including a June 11, 2012 cover story.  She has been interviewed by NPR, BBC World News, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English TV, Pacifica Radio, Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets.  Currently she is writing a book about the AFL-CIO’s Cold War intervention in the Honduran labor movement, while working with members of the US Congress to address US policy in Honduras.