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Hi, I thought it was time to join the Information Age by putting up web site. I’m an assistant politics professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. I teach courses on the political economy of development, global civil society, and Latin American politics. I earned my undergraduate degree in history at Harvard University and my doctorate in political science at MIT.
My love affair with Latin America began at an early age. My family went to Guatemala for vacation when I was 11. I did all the translating!! That affair continued as a teenager when I rode the subway to Washington Heights, where I participated in a science program while in high school. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where the program was held, is in a largely Dominican neighborhood. So there were lots of opportunities to speak Spanish!!