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Herbert S. Klein,
Director
Phone: (650) 725-0500
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Herbert S. Klein, Professor of History, specializes in Latin American history. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1957 and his Ph.D. from Chicago in 1963. For thirty five years he taught at Columbia University and was the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History. He is the author of some 20 books and 155 articles in several languages on Latin America and on comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are four comparative studies of slavery, the most recent of which are African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-author) (2007), The Atlantic Slave Trade (1999), and Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850 (co-author) (2003), as well as four books on Bolivian history, the latest of which is Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the 18th and 19th Centuries (1993) and A Concise History of Bolivia (2003). He has also published on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680-1809 (1998) and A Population History of the United States (2004). He is also the co-author of two studies on recent Latin American developments, Brazil Since 1980 (2006) and Mexico Since 1980 (2008). He is currently the editor of the Cambridge University series of Latin American Studies. His long-term interests are in comparative economic and social history. Aside from courses on Latin America, he teaches methodology classes on quantitative methods in historical research and demographic history. He has taught full terms at the Universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, and the Latin American universities of Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, La República in Uruguay (two terms in different years), San Andrés and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (both in Argentina), and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, U.Federal de Paraná, Universidade de São Paulo (several terms); PUC- São Paulo, and the Colegio de México.; as well as the Hebrew University; and L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) (two terms in different years); He has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fulbright Lecturer several times and was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale and Oxford. He is currently Professor of History, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Affiliated Faculty of the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Megan Gorman,
Associate Director
Phone: (650) 725-0502

Megan Gorman has lived and worked in El Salvador, China, Switzerland, and Alaska. She has led sustainable development projects as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador and a Volunteer in Service to America in Alaska, and has taught English to university students in China. She has an M.A. in international relations from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Megan has done research in Geneva for a Swiss foundation dedicated to training high-level officials in international diplomacy. She currently volunteers as a community mediator with the City of Palo Alto and is serving on the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. Megan is a recipient of the 2009 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award of Merit. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and has spent time in Brazil.

Emily Davis,
Program Coordinator
Phone: (650) 725-0383

Emily Davis has lived, studied, and traveled in --and thereby fallen in love with-- Spain, Mexico, and Peru. She holds a BA in Spanish and an MA in Spanish Literature, both from Brigham Young University. While at BYU she served as Editor of La Marca Hispánica, the student-run journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and she assumed a number of different roles as a participant in BYU's Spanish Golden Age Theater mentoring and outreach project. Fluent in Spanish, Emily has also studied German and Portuguese, and she is fascinated by indigenous languages, having so far dabbled in Maya K'iche', Yukatek Maya, Basque, and Quechua.

Angela Doria-La,
Business Administrator
Phone: (650) 725-0501

Angela Doria-La holds a BA in International Studies and Economics from Seattle University. She has previously worked in international banking/finance and in global logistics focusing on the Latin American market. While at Seattle University, Angela interned at the Washington State Office of Trade and Economic Development and launched a major business mission to Brazil and Chile. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, Angela has lived in the United States for over a decade and is fascinated by international relations and issues of economic development. In her spare time, Angela loves spending time with her husband discovering the beautiful Bay Area.

Cristal Garcia,
Student Administrative Assistant
Phone: (650) 723-4444

Angela Doria-La Cristal Garcia is a sophomore at Stanford, originally from Melrose Park, Illinois. She plans to major in International Relations and to minor in Management Science and Engineering, and her hobbies include painting, drawing, and dancing.