Aaron Coy Moulton

Aaron Coy Moulton is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Stephen F. Austin State University where he teaches on Latin American history, intelligence and espionage, and video games. His award-winning research has appeared in multiple outlets such as Cold War History, The Americas, Intelligence & National Security, the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, the Journal of Military History, The International History Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, Cuban Studies, Diplomatic History, and the Journal of Intelligence History.

His research has been supported by various historical organizations including Lamar University's Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast, The Huntington Library, University of Oregon's Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University's Hoover Institution Library & Archives, The University of Alabama's Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, the Hover Presidential Foundation, the University of Southern California Libraries, The Dirksen Congressional Center, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the American Philosophical Society, University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, the Eisenhower Foundation, the Roosevelt Institute, Phi Alpha Theta, and the Truman Library Institute.

His book, Caribbean Blood Pacts: Guatemala and the Cold War Struggle for Freedom (Cornell University Press, 2026), reveals how Caribbean Basin regimes, Guatemalan reactionaries, the United Fruit Company, and British intelligence tried sabotaging Guatemala's democratic revolution in the 1940s and 1950s, at which point the US government's infamous covert operations overthrow its government and set into motion a series of repressive regimes.