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Margaret Crahan
 

Ph.D. Columbia University
Academic Affiliation: Dorothy Epstein Professor, Hunter
Office phone:212-772-5549
E-Mail: Notmeg@rcn.com

Field of Scholarship

Latin American, Colonial and National Periods, Religion and Politics, Human Rights

Selected Publications

The City and the World. with Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, eds. (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1997) .

Religion, Culture, and Society: The Case of Cuba.  Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2003.

Wars on Terror and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy. With Thomas G. Weiss and John Goering, eds.  New York: Routledge, 2004.

Articles/Reviews/Essays:

“Costa Rica: National Identity and the Promotion of Human Rights,” El Sístema Interamericano de Protección de los Derechos Humanos en el Umbral del Siglo XXI. Tomo I (San José: Corte Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, 2001), 547-566.

“Cuba,” Paul E. Sigmund, ed.  Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism.  (Maryknoll: Orbis  Books, 1999), pp. 87-112.

“Religion and Societal Change: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America,” Carrie Gustafson & Peter Juviler, eds.  Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims.  (London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999), pp. 57-80.

"Catholicism and Human Rights in Latin America," Irene Bloom & J. Paul Martin eds. Religious Diversity and Human Rights (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 473-492.

"The Salvadoran Truth Commission in Comparative Perspective," Antonio Cancado Trindade, ed. The Modern World of Human Rights/El Mundo Moderno de Derechos Humanos. (San Jose: Interamerican Institute of Human Rights, 1996.

"Juan Francisco Fresno Larrain." Crescente Errazuriz Valdivieso," "Vicariate of Solidarity," Human Rights," "Adolfo Perez Esquivel," "Services for Peace and Justice," "Raul Silva Enriquez," in vols. 2-5 of Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996)

"Human Rights and Basic Needs in the Americas," Michael Klare, ed, Peace and World order Studies: A Curriculum Guide. (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1994)

"The State of Revolution" and "Religion: Reconstituting Church and Pursuing Change," in Alfred Stepan, ed., Americas: New Interpretive Essays, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 79-108 and 152-71.

"Religion and Democratization in Central America," in Louis W. Goodman, et al., eds. Political Parties and Democracy in Central America. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 331-

"Religion, Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Role of the Religious Right in Central America." Douglas Chalmers, et al., eds., The Right and Democracy in Latin America. (New York: Praiger, 1992). pp. 163-182.

"Church and State in Latin America: Assassinating Some Old and New Stereotypes," Daedalus, 120, 3 (Summer 1991), pp. 131-58.

Works in Progress:

Religion and Civil Society in Cuba.  2005.

Resistance: Overcoming the Culture of Fear-Argentina, 1976-1983.  2006.

Religion and Revolution: Cuba and Nicaragua. 2007.

Other Activities:

Board of Trustees.  St. Edward’s University.

Executive Committee. Board of Trustees. Interamerican Institute of Human Rights.

Board of Editors, Human Rights Quarterly .

Executive Committee of Board of Directors, Interamerican Institute of Human Rights, 1995-97.



 
 
 
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