Nelson Bass is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Politics at Nova Southeastern University. After receiving his J.D. from the University of Miami in 2006, Bass went on to study Political Science at Florida International University (FIU), and received his Ph.D. in December of 2012. His dissertation, titled “Organized Labor and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Solidarity Center in Historical Context” examined the ways in which NGOs (specifically the “Solidarity Center”) are influenced by the U.S. state via funding flows and organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), with a significant focus on Latin America. Bass is also the Managing Editor of the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Class, Race and Corporate Power, which is hosted by FIU. He teaches POLS 4200 Latin American Politics, where he always assigns students to read 100 Years of Solitude.