Georgia Whitaker entered the PhD program in 2015. She studies the Cold War in the Southern Cone, and her research interests include the transmission of history and the politics of memory, transitional justice, human rights, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Her proposed dissertation takes a transnational look at the history of human rights and neoliberalism in the Cold War in Chile. Georgia graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 2014 with a double major in History and Latin American Studies and a minor in Spanish. Her honors thesis “Reconsidering Operation Condor: Cross-border Military Cooperation and the Defeat of the Transnational Left in Chile and Argentina during the 1970s” won two institutional prizes.