Herbert S. Klein | |
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Awards | Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2020) Guggenheim Fellowship (1980) |
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Discipline | Latin American history |
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Herbert S. Klein (born January 6,1936) is an American historian. [1] [2] He is the Gouveneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. [3]
In February 2020 the El Colegio de México awarded the Alfonso Reyes International Prize to Herbert S. Klein. [4] He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980. [5] In 2022,Klein served as the curator for the Latin American Collection of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. [6]
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party,he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A self-made man who became rich as a mining engineer,Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium,served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration,and served as the U.S. secretary of commerce.
Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford,California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres,among the largest in the United States,and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
The Chicago Boys were a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s,the majority of whom were educated at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger,or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. After they finished their studies and returned to Latin America,they adopted positions in numerous South American governments including,prominently,the military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990),as economic advisors. Many of them reached the highest positions within those governments. While The Heritage Foundation credits them with transforming Chile into Latin America's best performing economy and one of the world's most business-friendly jurisdictions,critics point to drastic increases in unemployment that can be attributed to counter-inflation policies implemented on their advice. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were influenced by Chile's policies and economic reforms.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as a conservative institution,although its directors have contested its partisanship.
Alfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer,philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest authors in Spanish language. He served as ambassador of Mexico to Argentina and Brazil.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities in the country,along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. Founded in 1888,it is also one of Chile's oldest universities and one of the most recognized educational institutions in Latin America.
El Colegio de México,A.C. is a Mexican institute of higher education,specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities.
Ronald Hilton was a British-American academic,reporter and think-tank specialist,specializing in Latin America and,in particular,Fidel Castro's Cuba. Ronald Hilton was educated at Oxford University and at the University of California at Berkeley and became a US citizen in 1946. He launched the Hispanic American Report in 1948. He spent most of his long working life at Stanford University.
James Lockhart was a U.S. historian of colonial Spanish America,especially the Nahua people and Nahuatl language.
Matthew Restall is a historian of Colonial Latin America. He is an ethnohistorian,a Mayanist,a scholar of the conquest,colonization,and the African diaspora in the Americas,and an historian of popular music. Restall has areas of specialization in Yucatán and Mexico,Guatemala,and Belize. He is a member of the New Philology school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school,the New Conquest History. He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology,and Director of Latin American Studies,at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (2017–18),a former editor of Ethnohistory journal (2007–17),a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017–22),editor of the book series Latin American Originals,and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series. He also writes books on the history of popular music.
The Alfonso Reyes International Prize is a Mexican award given for meritorious lifetime contributions to literary research and criticism. It was founded in 1972 by the economist turned author/critic,Francisco Zendejas and was named in honor of Alfonso Reyes,a well-known Mexican literary critic,author and poet.
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is a Mexican architect,critical theorist and urban planner.
Francisco Javier Garciadiego Dantán is a Mexican historian specialized in the Mexican Revolution who formerly served as president of El Colegio de México. He is a former director-general of the National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolutions (INEHRM),has authored several books and holds the 12th seat of the Mexican Academy of History,where he substituted the late Beatriz de la Fuente.
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives is a research center and archival repository located at Stanford University,near Palo Alto,California in the United States. Built around a collection amassed by Stanford graduate Herbert Hoover prior to his becoming President of the United States,the Hoover Library and Archives is largely dedicated to the world history of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes one of the largest collections of political posters in the world.
Stephen H. Haber is an American political scientist and historian known for his research on political institutions and economic policies that promote innovation and improvements in living standards. Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University,the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Events in the year 1959 in Mexico.
Eleven United States presidents and one president-elect have made presidential visits to South America. The first trip was made by Herbert Hoover in 1928. During this tour he delivered twenty-five speeches in ten Central and South American countries,almost all of which stressed his plans to reduce American political and military interference in Latin American affairs. In sum,he pledged that the United States would act as a "good neighbor."
Laird W. Bergad is an American historian of Latin America and the Caribbean,currently a Distinguished Professor and founding Director of the Center for Latin American,Caribbean,and Latino Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Lehman College. A published author,he was also one of the first American scholars to be given full access to Cuban historical archives in the 1980s,and he published 2 books from these experiences.
Doris Sommer is a literature scholar. She is Ira Jewell Williams,Jr.,Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard. Sommer received her PhD from Rutgers University.
The presidential transition of Herbert Hoover began when he won the United States 1928 United States presidential election,becoming the president-elect,and ended when Hoover was inaugurated at noon EST on March 4,1929.