Michael L. Conniff

Michael Conniff, emeritus professor of history at San José State University, earned degrees at UC Berkeley and Stanford and has published 10 books and many articles on modern history, most recently Modern Panama (2019, with Gene Bigler) and A New History of Modern Latin America (2017, with Lawrence Clayton and Susan Gauss). He has lived overseas more than a dozen years, held several post-docs (including three Fulbright tours), and served in the U.S. Peace Corps. He lectures often in Portuguese and Spanish. He taught history at the University of New Mexico and later created Latin American studies programs at Auburn University and the University of South Florida. He also founded the Global Studies program at San Jose State and its Global Studies Initiative.