Chaffee, Wilber Albert

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CHAFFEE, Wilber Albert

PERSONAL: Born in Los Angeles, CA; married Alice Blake (marriage ended); married Edivanir Fontanelli; children: Graham S., Lyman B. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Occidental College, B.A.; University of Texas at Austin, M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1975. Religion: Presbyterian.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1800 30th St., Ste. 314, Boulder, CO 80301. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Texas at Austin, assistant professor, 1975-77; St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, professor of politics, 1978-99, professor emeritus, 1999—. Iuperj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, senior researcher, 1999-2000; University of California, Berkeley, visiting professor, 2003. Military service: U.S. Army; became sergeant.

MEMBER: American Political Science Association, Latin American Studies Association.

WRITINGS:

(With Honor M. Griffin) Dissertations on Latin America by U.S. Historians, 1960-1970: A Bibliography, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas (Austin, TX), 1973.

(Editor, with Stanley R. Ross) Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956-1975, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1980.

(With Gary Prevost) Cuba: A Different America, Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ), 1989.

The Economics of Violence in Latin America, Praeger (New York, NY), 1992.

Desenvolvimento: Politics and Economy in Brazil, Lynne Rienner Publishers (Boulder, CO), 1998.

Contributor to books, including Politics in Latin America, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2005.

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