Dr. Mateo Jarquin
- Education:
- Grinnell College, Bachelor of Arts
Harvard University, Ph.D.
Biography
Mateo Jarquín is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Master’s Program in War, Diplomacy, and Society at Chapman University. His research explores the intersection of democracy, revolutions, and international relations in modern Latin America.
He is the author of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), which received the 2025 Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Related articles have appeared in journals such as Cold War History and The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History.
His scholarship has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, among other organizations. In addition to his historical research, he writes regularly about contemporary Central American politics.
Originally from Nicaragua, Jarquín holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from Grinnell College.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- “Nicaragua: Dos Crisis,” in Política y crisis en América Latina: reacción e impacto frente a la covid-19, eds. Salvador Martí I Puig and Manuel Alcántara Sáez (Barcelona: Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, 2020).
- “Red Christmases: the Sandinistas, indigenous rebellion, and the origins of the Nicaraguan civil war, 1981-82,” Cold War History 18 no.1, (2017): 91-110.
- “Panorama de la ampliación infraestructural en Nicaragua de los años 50 y 60,” Revista de Historia — Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, No. 30 (Summer 2015).