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Douglas A. Chalmers
International Affairs Building, Room 829
Professor of Political Science
Phone: 212-854-6675
www.columbia.edu/~chalmers/
dac2@columbia.edu
Biography:
Currently the director of Columbia's Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Professor Chalmers was the chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia in 1978–86. In 1996–97, he also served as acting dean for Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.
Professor Chalmers's research has centered upon the way in which interests and identities are formed and represented in political institutions. He has worked on Latin American political change, particularly on transformations in Mexico. His publications range from The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Yale 1964) to The Right and Democracy in Latin America, which he edited with Maria do Carmo Campello de Souza and Atilio Boron (Praeger 1992). He completed an edited volume titled The Politics of Inequality in Latin America (Oxford 1997).
Douglas Chalmers earned his BA from Bowdoin College in 1953. He received an MA in 1958 and a PhD in 1962 from Yale University. He has previously taught at Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, and the Colegio de Méjico in 1993, and led a team of researchers in 1994 to study the role of nongovernmental organizations in that country.