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Academic Profile

Academic Background: B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago.

Research Interests: Caribbean history, particularly the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba; cultural and political history.

Appointments: Professor of History, UCLA; Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair in Latin American Studies.

Awards: Latin American Studies Association Best Book Award.

Publications: Author of The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (Duke University Press, 2009).

Additional Contributions: Co-editor of Hispanic American Historical Review.