Anne Garland Mahler is the author of three books of nonfiction and is currently completing a novel.

She is Associate Professor and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Virginia. She is author of A Wide Net: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Duke University Press, 2025), From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2018), and co-editor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters (Routledge, 2023). Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. Her public writings and interviews have been published in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, and her work has inspired several exhibits in Dresden, New York, Chicago, Charlottesville, and Torrance.

On a personal note, Anne Garland (double first name) grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and currently splits her time between the Chesapeake Bay and James River in Virginia. She grew up singing and is happiest on the river and at the beach.