Field: Latin America
Reseach Interests: Latin America and Globalization in the
20th Century:
1. Impact of Technology & communications to foster the rise of civil society;
2. Rise of free trade blocks to break the negative heritage unmanageable state power;
3. Measurement of economic and social change in the 20 countries of Latin America;
4. Oral history of leaders;
5. Analyis of Elitelore at all levels of society (e.g. presidents, governors, mayors, peasant leaders)
--oral memories of leaders in Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica & Venezuela

Special Methods: oral history and historical statistics.