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 mining economies in the Americas over four centuries: silver mining in the seventeenth-century Mexico (Zacatecas), gold mining in the 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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