History Department

Daniel M. Masterson, Professor

Latin America; Immigration Studies

Email:  masterso@usna.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D. - Michigan State University
  • M.A. - Michigan State University
  • B.A. - University of Illinois

Biography:

Dan Masterson has taught at the Naval Academy since 1979.  He held previous positions at Marietta College in Ohio and at SUNY at Oswego.

 

Research:

His research has centered on civil military relations, revolution and counterinsurgency, race relations and immigration to Latin America.

 

Monographs:

Dan Masterson with Sayaka Funada, The Japanese in Latin America, (University of Illinois Press, 2004).

Fuerza armada y sociedad en el Peru moderno, 1930-2000, (IEPE, Lima 2001).

Militarism and Politics in Latin America: Peru from Sanchez Cerro to Sendero Luminoso (Greenwood, 1992).

 

Current work:

He is presently working on a cultural biography of Alberto Fujimori and the Japanese community in Peru and a history of the British constabulary force in Ireland to be titled "The Black and Tans in Irish Memory."  The latter work is being written in collaboration with his brother, Don Masterson.





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