Thomas Field (PhD, London School of Economics) is an associate professor at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence. He is the author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era (Cornell University Press, 2014), which won the Thomas McGann Book Award from the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice magazine. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize and the 2011 Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize, both from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.