Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California Santa Cruz, spoke on “”Workers' Rights, Resistance, and Repression in Post-Coup Honduras”

Frank’s research focuses on U.S. social and labor history and international labor organizing. She had written on banana workers and unionism in Latin America and modern Honduran history, including contemporary Honduran politics. She is currently doing archival research and interviews for an upcoming book on the history of the U.S. intervention in the Honduran labor movement during the Cold War. Frank is the author of Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999) and Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005).