Profile

John Coatsworth

• Professor of History and International and Public Affairs
  Committee on Global Thought
  Columbia University
• Director
  Institute of Latin American Studies
  Columbia University
• Dean
  School of International and Public Affairs
  Columbia University

John Coatsworth is Professor of History and International and Public Affairs, director of the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has written many scholarly articles on Latin American economic and international history. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Dean Coatsworth received his Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1972. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation, and numerous professional associations. He is a former president of the American Historical Association and was recently elected to the presidency of the Latin American Studies Association. Dean Coatsworth’s most recent book is The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 2006), edited with Victor Bulmer-Thomas and Roberto Cortes Conde. His research and publications have focused on comparative economic, social, and international history of Latin America, especially Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals including the American Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History, and the Hispanic American Historical Review and as well as social science and history journals published in Britain, Germany, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Dean Coatsworth was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1986, served as Senior Fulbright Lecturer three times (for appointments in Argentina and Mexico), and has received research and institutional grants from public agencies and private foundations in the United States and elsewhere. He has also acted as consultant for program design or review to numerous U.S. universities and private foundations.