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Peter F. Klaren

Professor of History and International Affairs

Phillips 313
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6233
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: klaren@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Expertise:

Latin American history, history of Peru and the Andes

Background:

Professor Klaren received his A.B. degree in history from Dartmouth and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from UCLA. He has taught at Washington State University, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), and Georgetown University. At GW, he directed the Latin American Studies Program for six years and won the Trachtenberg Teaching Prize in 1995. He teaches courses on the history of Latin America, comparative revolutions in Latin America, and Latin American populism.

Professor Klaren has published three books: Modernization, Dislocation and Aprismo (1973), which has appeared in two Spanish-language editions, and Promise of Development, Theories of Change in Latin America (1986) and most recently Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes (Oxford University Press, 2000). His most recent book was published in Spanish for distribution throughout Latin America: Nacion y Socedad en la Historia del Peru (Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2004).

Professor Klaren is a member of the international editorial committee for the project, "Historicizing the Time of Troubles in Argentina, Chile and Peru," that will produce an electronic publication sponsored by the Ford Foundation. During the 2007-08 academic year, he is serving as Visiting Professor of History at the University of California in Irvine.

Courses Taught:

Hist 162 20th-Century Latin America
Hist 163 History of Latin America (1492-1820)
Hist 164 History of Latin America (since 1820)
Hist 165 Revolution in 20th-Century Latin America
Hist 261 Readings/Seminar: Topics in Modern Latin America
Hist 262 Readings/Seminar: Topics in Modern Latin America

Last update: 07.10.08