Tony Wood

Tony Wood specializes in the political and social history of modern Latin America.

Tony Wood’s research focuses on the Latin American radical left in the interwar period. His most recent book, titled Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America, appeared in 2026. Based on multilingual archival research in five sites and fifteen archival repositories in Mexico, Cuba, Russia, and the US, the book reconstructs a series of transnational debates on empire, race, and sovereignty that unfolded in such far-flung locations as Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Moscow, and Brussels. It argues that these debates left an enduring mark on Latin America’s political landscape, shifting the terms in which the region’s radicals viewed the nation.

Prof. Wood initially trained as a specialist on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is also the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007) and Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War (2018). He was deputy editor of New Left Review from 2007 to 2014 and is a member of its editorial board. He has written on a range of subjects for the London Review of Books, n+1, The Nation, and the Guardian (UK), among other outlets.

Prof. Wood is not currently accepting M.A. or PhD students, but is happy to serve on graduate dissertation committees related to Latin American history.