Michael Conniff

Michael Conniff

Michael L. Conniff is Director of Global Studies and Professor of History at San Jose State University, California.[1] He has a longstanding interest in the study of populism in Latin America;[2] his country focus has been on Brazil and Panama.

Conniff was previously Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Professor of History at the University of South Florida (1997 - 2002).[1] His academic career history includes the University of New Mexico (1975 - 1990; Professor from 1986) and Auburn University (1990 - 1997). He has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador (1962 - 1964) and a USAID advisor on community development in Panama (1966 - 1967).

Selected publications

  • Urban Politics in Brazil: The Rise of Populism, 1925-1945. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981
  • Latin American Populism in Comparative Perspective. Editor and contributor. University of New Mexico Press, 1982
  • Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.
  • Modern Brazil: Elites and Masses in Comparative Perspective. With Frank D. McCann, editors and contributors. University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
  • A History of Modern Latin America. Co-author with Lawrence Clayton. Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1999.
  • Populism in Latin America. Editor and contributor. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 1999

References

  1. ^ a b Michael Conniff, accessed 5 Feb 2010
  2. ^ William H. Beezley, Judith Ewell (1987), The Human tradition in Latin America: the twentieth century, Rowman & Littlefield, 1987, p141


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