Faculty

W. Frank Robinson
Assistant Professor of History
Associate Director, Center for Latin American Studies

PhD, Auburn University, 1999

Colonial and modern Latin America; history of Central America and the Caribbean; twentieth century political and social movements; Diaspora communities

Telephone: 615-343-1935
Email: william.f.robinson@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: T, R 10:00 - 11:00 am, M 11:00 - 12:00 noon
Office: 237 Buttrick Hall

W. Frank Robinson is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean with interests in twentieth century political and social movements, nationalism and populism, and Caribbean Diaspora communities. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University, with a primary focus on the history of the Caribbean. At the graduate level at the University of Florida (M.A.) and at Auburn University (Ph.D.), he specialized in African Area Studies and Latin American history. Professor Robinson teaches courses in the Atlantic World and Latin American and Caribbean history that cover both the colonial and national periods including the history of the Iberian Atlantic empires, modern Latin America, Central America, and the contemporary Caribbean.

Professor Robinson has lived and researched for extended periods in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a contributing author to Populism in Latin America (Alabama, 1999) and is currently completing a manuscript that examines twentieth century Panamanian political history. Professor Robinson was selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute titled “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Currents of Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760-1888” at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from July 6 through August 7, 2009. “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels” brought together an eclectic array of scholars and researchers working on aspects of slavery and resistance in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Key themes included African slavery in the Atlantic World; marronage in the English and Dutch Caribbean; the Haitian Revolution; military and government in Iberian America; and African-American experiences of the American Revolution.  Grants and fellowships from the IIE Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Defense Education Act Title VI have helped fund his studies, research, and writing.

As the Associate Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, Professor Robinson oversees the undergraduate and graduate programs. He also co-teaches a multidisciplinary introduction to Latin American Studies and an interdisciplinary research methods course for majors and graduate students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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