Interview with Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez, 2014 February 22

This interview has access restrictions and is not available online. It may be accessed onsite at the Benson Latin American Collection.

Interview conducted in English. Douglass Sullivan-González, associate professor of History at the University of Mississippi, chronicles his experiences living and working in Central America, primarily Nicaragua, during the 1970s and 1980s. In Part 1, Sullivan-González details his initial research and interest in Central America as an undergraduate and graduate student, and his work with liberation theologists and Baptist missionaries in Nicaragua during the beginnings of the Sandinista Government. Sullivan-González discusses his decision to return to school for a PhD in Latin American Studies and how his education further directed his solidarity and activism within Central America. In Part 2, Sullivan-González speaks about his experiences related to the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, the changes he witnessed in the Sandinista government and his ideas about "revolutionary religious faith." This interview was conducted by Blake Scott, a graduate student in History, whose research focuses upon US citizens living and working in Panama and the greater Caribbean, and the tourism industry in those regions.