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Michael R. Hall Georgia Southern University |
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| List Affiliations: | None |
| Interests: | Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies |
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Bio: Michael R. Hall is Professor of Latin American History and U.S. Foreign Relations at Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus in Savannah, Georgia. He earned a B.A. in History from Gettysburg College in 1983, an M.A. in International Studies From Ohio University in 1989, and a Ph.D. in History from Ohio University in 1996. Prior to that, he served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic from 1984 to 1987. He was a visiting professor at the Instituto Technológico de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in 2000 and 2001. Hall participated in a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Development Seminar in Brazil in 2002 and has been the director of over a dozen study abroad programs in Latin America. He is a past president of the Association of Global South Studies (AGSS) and currently serves on that organization’s Executive Council. In addition, he is the associate editor in charge of book reviews for the association’s Journal of Global South Studies (JGSS). The association has awarded Hall the Outstanding Leadership and Service Award in 2010 and the Presidential Award for Service in 2015. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of ABC-CLIO’s multi-volume Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (2009). Hall is the faculty advisor of the Armstrong Campus’ chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. He offers continuing education classes for senior citizens in Savannah on U.S. relations with the Iberian-Latin American World. Hall is the author of Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos.(2000) and Historical Dictionary of Haiti (2012). Book chapters include: “Ethnic Conflict in Mexico: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation,” “Population Transfers and the Dominican Republic: An Historical Examination of Dominican Immigration and Emigration,” “Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism in Bolivia: Hugo Banzer Suárez and the Banzerato, 1971-1978,” and “British and French Imperialism Before and After the World Wars: West Meets East, 1798-1956.” Journal articles include: “The 1934 Sugar Act and its Impact on Dominican Sugar Exports to the United States,” “The Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy in the Dominican Republic,” “The Impact of the U.S. Peace Corps at Home and Abroad,” and “La Nostalgia del Exilio en la Literatura Colombiana Contemporánea: Un Estudio Cultural Historico de Tres Novelas.” |
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