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Dr. LaFevor is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History and Digital Humanities. He earned the Ph.D. and Master's degrees from Vanderbilt University and the Bachelor's degree from Rhodes College. His first book, The Third Century: A History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), was coathored with Michael LaRosa and Mark Gilderhus. His second book, Prizefighting and Civilization, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2020. It traces the racial, national, and gendered contours of the introduction and popularization of prizefighting and public spectacle in Cuba and Mexico from the 1840s to the 1930s. He is at work on a second monograph about the end of the slave trade to Cuba. His photography of Latin America has been exhibited in dozens of venues and published by the Huffington Post, NBC News, and other national and international publications. His work has been funded by the Fulbright Fellowship, the British Library, the Watson Fellowship and others. He teaches undergraduate courses on Colonial and Modern Latin American History, and upper-division seminars on revolutions in Cuba and Mexico, nationalism, sport and gender, and slavery in the Western Hemisphere. He also teaches graduate courses on nationalism, slavery, comparative race relations, and historiography and mentors graduate students. LaFevor is the director of the multiyear Digital Humanities project Siete Villas de Cuba, which locates, digitizes, preserves, and publishes endgangered colonial documents pertinent to the African diaspora in Cuba from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. This work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and the Associated Press. He also serves as a team member on similar Digital Humanities projects in Colombia, Brazil, and Florida.