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Research Summary

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor, Director of the Latin American Studies Program, and affiliated faculty in the Department of African American and African studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar focused on South-South political and cultural movements. Mahler is author of A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Duke, 2025), From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018), and co-editor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters (Routledge, 2023). She is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South (2026).

Mahler's work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. She is a public scholar who frequently gives lectures internationally and contributes to podcasts, magazines and periodicals. Her public writings and interviews have been published in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, and her work has inspired exhibits in Dresden, New York, Chicago, Charlottesville, and Torrance.

Committed to facilitating interdisciplinary conversation and platforming the work of other scholars, Mahler has done significant work to support the foundation and growth of the field of Global South studies, especially by creating and editing the digital platform Global South Studies.

Mahler serves on several editorial boards and as co-coordinator of UVA's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. 

Education

Ph.D. Emory University, 2013
M.A. Emory University, 2012
B.A. University of Pittsburgh, 2006

Publications

Books

A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe. Duke University Press, 2025.

The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters, eds. Anne Garland Mahler and Paolo Capuzzo. Routledge, 2022.  

From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity. Duke University Press, 2018.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South, eds. Anne Garland Mahler, Christopher J. Lee, and Monica Popescu (in memoriam) (forthcoming 2026).  

Edited Special Issues

"New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation," eds. Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler. Comparative Literature Studies 59.1 (2022).

“New Critical Directions in Global South Studies,” eds. Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler. Comparative Literature Studies 58.3 (2021).

“Men with Guns: Cultures of Paramilitarism and the Modern Americas,” eds. Joshua Lund and Anne Garland Mahler. The Global South 12.2. (2018) (published 2019).

Articles

"A Photography of Relation: Indigeneity, Anti-Imperialism, and Tina Modotti’s Visual Language of Liberation." Cultural Critique 126 (Winter 2025): 1-41. 

"Against Latin American Regionalisms: The 1927 Brussels Congress and the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas." Latin American Research Review 59.2 (2024): 341-360. 

Armillas-Tiseyra, Magalí and Anne Garland Mahler. "Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation." Comparative Literature Studies 59.1 (2022): 1-10.

“Global Solidarity before the Tricontinental Conference: Latin America and the League Against Imperialism" in The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War, eds. Mark Atwood Lawrence and R. Joseph Parrott. Cambridge UP, 2022.  

Armillas-Tiseyra, Magalí and Anne Garland Mahler. "Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies." Comparative Literature Studies 58.3 (2021): 465-84.

“The Limits of Global Solidarity: Reading the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana through Andrew Salkey’s Havana Journal.” The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas, eds. Kerry Bystrom, Monica Popescu, and Katherine Zien, 62-76. Routledge, 2021.

Lee, Christopher J. and Anne Garland Mahler. “The Bandung Era, Non-Alignment, and the Third Way Literary Imagination.” The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, ed. Andrew Hammond, 183-202. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Lund, Joshua K. and Anne Garland Mahler. “Men with Guns: Cultures of Paramilitarism and the Modern Americas.” The Global South 12.2 (2018): 1-27 (published 2019).

“South-South Organizing in the Global Plantation Zone: Ramón Marrero Aristy, the novela de la caña, and the Caribbean Bureau.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 19.2 (2019): 236-60.

“The Red and the Black in Latin America: Sandalio Junco and the ‘Negro Question’ from an Afro-Latin American Perspective.” American Communist History (Spring 2018): 1-17.

“Beyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South.” The Global South Atlantic, eds. Kerry Bystrom and Joseph Slaughter, 99-123. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.

“Global South.” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, ed. Eugene O’Brien. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“The Global South in the Belly of the Beast: Viewing African American Civil Rights Through a Tricontinental Lens.” Latin American Research Review 50.1 (2015): 95-116.

“Todos los negros y todos los blancos tomamos café: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s Coffea arábiga.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism (Duke UP) 46 (2015): 55-75.
–(Translation and reprint published in Nicolás Guillén o el desconcierto fílmico, eds. Julio Ramos and Dylon Robbins. Leiden, NL: Almenara Press, 2019.)

“The Writer as Superhero: Fighting the Colonial Curse in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 19.2 (2010): 119-40.
–(Reprinted in U.S. Latino/a Writing 4.10, ed. A. Robert Lee. London, UK: Routledge University Press, 2013.)