Kristina E. Thalhammer

Kristina E. Thalhammer

"Professor Thalhammer (PhD 1995, University of Minnesota) is chair of Political Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She is also coordinator of Peace Studies and the Kloeck-Jenson Endowment for Peace and Justice. Her teaching and research specialization is in Latin American politics and development and human rights. She has conducted research on courageous resistance to injustice in Argentina and Colombia and is coauthor of Courageous Resistance, the Power of Ordinary People (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)." (Coauthors are Paula L. O'Loughlin, Myron Peretz Glazer, Penina Migdal Glazer, Sam McFarland, Sharon Toffey Shepela, and Nathan Stoltzfus)