James P Brennan
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, twentieth-century revolution and the history of capitalism. Brennan taught at Harvard and Georgetown before joining the faculty at UCR in 1996.
Brennan is the author of three books and the editor of two others as well as having published a number of journal articles and book chapters. He 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.
He was awarded a research fellowship for 2010-2011 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and during the 2011-12 academic year he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
Source: University of California Riverside Department of History
