Harvard Ph.D. 1972, M.A. 1968; Yale B.A. 1967

Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University, Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Harvard University.

His current interests center on comparative politics and international relations in Latin America, United States-Latin America and United States-Mexico relations and issues relating to public opinion and democracy in Mexico.

He is a member of Diálogo Interamericano and currently serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, Foreign Affairs en Español, Cuban Studies, Foro Internacional, and Istor. He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association and of the Institute of Cuban Studies.

Awards and Distinctions: Hoopes Prizes (two) for senior thesis advising (2005); McCord Writing Prize for prose writing in Harvard Magazine, 2000; Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University, 1996-97; Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award, Harvard College, 1991; Harvard Junior Fellow, 1969-1972; Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1967-68; Harvard Graduate Prize Fellow 1967-68; Harvard Government Department Toppan Prize for best dissertation, 1972.

Notable among his recent works are: (co-editor, con A. Jones) The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); Cuba hoy: analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro (Editorial Colibrí, 2006); editor, con B. K. Kim; Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America y “New” Pax Americana, Routledge, 2005, co-editor, con C. Lawson; Mexico’s Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000 (Stanford University Press, 2004); co-editor, con O. E. Pérez Villanueva y L. Barberia.