Marcus Golding
Interests
20th Century Latin America, the Inter-American Cold War, labor movements and foreign businesses in extractive industries, the Venezuelan petroleum industry, and U.S. soft power. Other minor interests include Third-World Nationalism, guerrilla insurgencies, revolutions, and counter-revolutions.
Biography
Marcus Golding is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at the University of Texas in Austin. He has a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University (2016) and a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas (2013). Golding’s research explores the history of social corporate responsibility in the Venezuelan petroleum industry and the role American and British oil producers had in promoting this business creed as a mechanism to combat economic nationalism (1936-1976). He is also the co-founder of the Venezuela History Network, a non-profit dedicated to rescuing the historical records of his country through digitization and the creation of open-access digital repositories. This semester Golding will work as an editor for the Texas State Historical Association. You can visit his website marcusgolding.com for more information.