Margaret E. Crahan

Margaret E. Crahan' "is the Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her doctorate from Columbia University where she is a Senior Research Associate of the Institute of Latin American Studies. From 1982-1994 she was the Henry R. Luce Professor of Religion, Power and Political Process at Occidental College and from 1993-1994 the Marous Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She currently serves on the Boards of St. Edward's University, the Interamerican Institute of Human Rights, the Democracy Coalition Project of the Open Society Institute and ForCHILDREN, Inc. She has also served on the Executive Councils of the Latin American Studies Association and the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, as well as on the Board of Directors the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame and the Fulbright Council representing the American Council of Learned Societies.

"Dr. Crahan has done research in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, and Uruguay on topics spanning the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in Latin American." 


 * Advisory Council, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
 * Advisory Board, Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society
 * Expert for the Cuba Study Group
 * Member, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Latin America
 * Editorial Review Board, Human Rights Quarterly