Lorraine Bayard de Volo is a political scientist and serves as Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her areas of research include gender, sexuality, and race as they relate to militarization, war, and revolution in Latin America. She has conducted fieldwork in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico (Chiapas), and Nicaragua. She also does work on gender and political violence in the U.S., with particular focus on military sexual assault as well as drone warfare. She recently published a piece on masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis in International Affairs. She has a book on Cuba: Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro’s Victory. She is also the author of Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999. Her current research project takes a postcolonial, feminist approach to Cold War Cuba, and she is developing a book that goes beyond the superpower narratives through a Cuba-centric analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She can be reached at LBDV@colorado.edu