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Walt Vanderbush

Walt Vanderbush teaches classes in Latin American and Latine Studies, International Studies, and American Studies. Walt writes in the areas of US-Latin American relations and Latin American political economy.

Teaching

Professor Vanderbush teaches courses on US-Latin American Relations, Latin American Politics, Latin America in the US, Global Political Economy, US Foreign Policy, and Immigration to the US. He has accompanied ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈs on study abroad trips to Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia.

Research

Walt's original research was on Mexican political economy, including articles on Mexican labor unions and other popular organizing. He moved next to a focus on US-Latin American Relations, particularly US-Cuba policy. With co-author Pat Haney, he published several articles and book chapters on Cuba policy, as well as the 2005 book, The Cuban Embargo: Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy.

Since then, Walt's work has been on US-Latin American Relations more generally, with articles in journals such as New Political Science, Foreign Policy Analysis, and New Politics. He has also contributed chapters to the book, Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government: Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy (2014); and The Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food Trade (2017, co-authored with Melanie Ziegler).

More recently, he is one of the authors of the textbook, International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues, 2022.

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, Northwestern University, 1993.