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James P. Brennan
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988
Fields of interest: Modern Latin America with an emphasis on 20th century Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
(951) 827-1992
james.brennan@ucr.edu |
James Brennan specializes in modern Latin American history. Among his
interests are industry and labor, the political economy of Latin American
populism, the Latin American left, political violence, human rights, and
twentieth-century revolution. Brennan taught at Harvard and Georgetown
before joining the faculty at UCR in 1996. Brennan is the author of two books
and the editor of two others as well as having published a number of journal
articles and book chapters. He is now working on two separate research
projects. The first is a socio-cultural study of political violence, human rights,
and the 'dirty war' in Argentina in the 1970s. The second is a longue duree study of world and labor systems, work, the law, and environmental change in
mining economies in the Americas over four centuries: silver mining in
seventeenth-century Mexico (Zacatecas), gold mining in eighteenth-century
Brazil (Minas Gerais), coal mining in nineteenth-century United States
(Pennsylvania) and copper mining in twentieth-century Chile (Norte Chico).
Brennan has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Tinker Foundation, the
Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, and was a recipient
of the University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities,
1999-2000.
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