Daniel M. Masterson, Professor

Latin America; Immigration Studies

Email:  masterso@usna.edu
Phone: 410-293-6296

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:

The History of Peru (Westport, CT. 2009)

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:

Professor Masterson is currently working on a study with, his brother Donald, of Britain’s para-military force during the Irish Revolution (1919-1921). It is to be titled, “The Black and Tans and Irish Memory.” A second priority is a work, grounded in archeology and anthropology tentatively titled, “Fisher folk of Peru” From Ancient Times to the Present Day.”