Christy Thornton is an Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Sociology and the Co-Chair of the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies . She is also the co-director, with Quinn Slobodian, of the History and Political Economy Project . She is a 2023 Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, as well as a non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. She was previously a fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard Uni
Christy holds a Bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, which she attended as a Pell Grant student, as well as a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University, which was supported by a Truman Scholarship.
Before graduate school, she was for five years the Executive Director of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) , a 50-year old research and advocacy organization working on Latin American affairs and the U.S. relationship with the region, and she is currently a member of the Board of Directors there.