Faculty

W. Frank Robinson
Assistant Professor of History
Associate Director, Center for Latin American and Iberian 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: 615-322-4734 (History Dept) and 615-322-2527 (CLAIS)
Email: william.f.robinson@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: None during the summer, email for an appointment.
Office: Buttrick Hall 233

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. Grants and fellowships from the IIE Fulbright Hays 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 and Iberian Studies at Vanderbilt University, Professor Robinson advises undergraduate majors and minors, organizes the speaker and film series, and co-teaches a multidisciplinary introduction to Latin American Studies and an interdisciplinary research methods course for majors and graduate students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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