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About J. Patrice McSherry
- Joan Patrice McSherry is a professor of political science at Long Island University.
- She specializes in the study of Latin American politics and she wrote the book Predatory States, which detailed American involvement in Operation Condor.
- McSherry is founding chair and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at the LIU campus.
- She won LIU’s David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008 and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Political Science MA-Ph.D Program of the CUNY Graduate Center in 2009.
- She has been awarded several Fulbright grants (Argentina, 1992; Uruguay, 2005; Chile, 2011), and has authored several books and coedited another.
- She serves on the editorial board of the journal Social Justice.
- She was Associate Editor for Latin America for Journal of Third World Studies for thirteen years (1997–2010).
- McSherry worked with several international non-governmental organizations on human rights issues before graduate school.
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