Gilbert M. Joseph
Gilbert M. Joseph received his doctorate
from Yale University in Latin American history in 1978. In
1993, after teaching for fifteen years at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he returned to Yale, where he
is presently Farnam Professor of History and International
Studies. In January 2005 he finished an eleven-year term as
director of Latin American and Iberian Studies and as Yale's
representative on the New England Consortium of Latin American
Studies. Joseph has produced numerous books on social
movements and U.S.-Latin American relations as well as articles
dealing with modern Mexico, social movements, and the history
of rural crime and protest. Among his academic honors
are the Sturgis Leavitt Prize; induction into the Academia
Yucatanense de Ciencias y Artes; the Tanner Award (for excellence
in undergraduate teaching at the University of North Carolina);
the inaugural Graduate Mentor Award from Yale University; and
the Geoffrey Marshall Faculty Mentoring Award, bestowed by
the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.
Throughout the 1980s, Professor Joseph led or participated in delegations to Nicaragua, one of which gave rise to the international organization "Witness for Peace." He also helped to found Chapel Hill's Sister City program with San Jorge, Nicaragua.
