Lara Norgaard is a PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard University, where her research centers on the memory of US-backed dictatorships in Latin America and Southeast Asia. She was the recipient of a Labouisse Fellowship (2017) and a Henry Luce Foundation Grant (2019) to pursue public-history initiatives in Brazil and Indonesia. Her most recent essays can be found in the Mekong Review, the Transpacific Literary Project, and Asymptote.