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J. PATRICE MCSHERRY, Ph.D.
Political Science Department
Long Island University
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-780-4105
pmcsherr@liu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, February 1994, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).
Dissertation title: "Democratization and the Politics of National Security in Argentina."
Master of Arts in Political Science, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York.
Bachelor of Arts in English. University of California at Berkeley. Honors.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS (recent)
Professor of Political Science, LIU and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. (http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/depts/social/LACS/index.html).
Visiting Fulbright scholar (June-August 2005), Area of Interdisciplinary Studies of the School of Humanities and Sciences, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (partial list)
Books
Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005). Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006.
Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).
Book Chapters
"Operation Condor as a Hemispheric ‘Counterterror’Organization," in Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez, When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2005).
"Preserving Hegemony: National Security Doctrine in the Post-Cold War Era," in Peter L. Kingstone, Readings in Latin American Politics: Challenges to Democratization (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
"Borges's Political World: A Brief Look at 20th-Century Argentine History," in Gregary Racz, ed., Jorge Luis Borges at the Millennium (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).
Guest Editorship of Journal
Guest editor (with Raúl Molina Mejía), special issue of Social Justice, "Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America," Vol. 26, no.4 (Winter 1999).
Recent Scholarly Articles, Papers, and Monographs (selected)
“Death Squads as Parallel Forces: Uruguay, Operation Condor, and the United States,” Journal of Third World Studies, forthcoming.
“The Undead Ghost of Operation Condor,” Logos On-Line Journal, Vol. 4, no. 2 (Spring 2005), at http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.2/mcsherry.htm
"Challenges to U.S. Hegemony in Latin America," Journal of Third World Studies, V. XX, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 235-242.
"Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor," Latin American Perspectives, Issue 122, Vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2002): 38-60. Noted as twelfth most cited article in “50 Most-Frequently-Cited Articles,” Latin American Perspectives (November 2, 2004).
"Justice in the Gerardi Case: But Terror Continues," (with Raúl Molina Mejía), Report on the Americas, Vol. XXXV, no. 1 (July-August 2001): 8-11.
"Deciphering the U.S. Role in Operation Condor," Crimes of War On-Line Magazine (crimesofwar.org), Special Report, July 2001. Translated and published as "Zur Entschlüsselung der Rolle der USA im Condor-Pakt," Context XXI, Austria (March 2003).
MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND DOCUMENTARIES (recent)
On research and analysis of Operation Condor, Cold War-era military intelligence network in Latin America:
* “Argentine Junta 1976-1983: The U.S. Role,” by film maker Claire Lisciandro (A Varela Production), July 2006
* "My Enemy's Enemy" by Oscar-winning film maker Kevin McDonald, on role of Nazis in South America, June 2006
* Featured analyst in “In Search of Enemies,” Richard Mahoney documentary on Condor, January 2006
* Invited to appear on TV Channel 5, TV LIBRE, TV Ciudad, Radio Carve, and Radio 1410 AM Libre for interviews, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 2005
*Article on my keynote speech at conference sponsored by Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay,“Ejércitos acordaron en 1960 acciones secretas para combatir el comunismo,”La República (Uruguay), August 30, 2005
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (recent)
"Operation Condor and Its Legacies,” Regional Conference of Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2007.
“Operation Condor and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War,” Illinois Wesleyan University, September 2006.
“Operation Condor and Transnational State Terror,” Tufts University, March 2006.
Chair, organizer, and presenter in panel "’Never Again’: State Repression in the 1970s Southern Cone and Its Sequels,” in the XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006. Paper entitled “The Role of Uruguay in Operation Condor.”
N Presenter in workshop entitled “Violence, State Formation and Democratic Citizenship in Latin America” in same conference.
“América Latina, EEUU y la Guerra Fría,” keynote speech in cycle of conferences entitled “Archivos del Pasado Reciente Uruguayo 1968-1985,” sponsored by Human Rights Secretariat, Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 29, 2005.
“Operación Cóndor y Guerra Encubierta en América Latina,” Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, August 2005.
“Estados Depredadores: Resumen del Libro,” seminar in Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana, Montevideo, August 2005.
"Operation Condor and the Inter-American Military System," paper presented at XXV International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, October 2004.
Moderator and organizer, “The Guatemalan Democratic Spring and Its Demise, 1944-54,” International Conference, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, Long Island University, November 11-12, 2004.
"Operation Condor: Supranational State Terror System," paper presented at Wolfe Institute Seminar Series, Brooklyn College, CUNY, September 30, 2003.
HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS (recent)
Fulbright Scholar Research Award for fieldwork in Uruguay, June-August 2005.
Translation grant for book Predatory States, Fall 2006, World Council of Churches, International Programme; Research/writing grant, Fall 2001.
Travel grant, São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp), Brazil, for mini-course, August 2001. Combined grant from Vice President, Provost, and Dean (Long Island University-Brooklyn) for travel to Uruguay for research.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (recent)
Editorial Advisory Board, Social Justice, June 2004--present.
External evaluator of funded project for Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica de Argentina (Argentine National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology), August 2003.
Associate Editor/Latin America, Journal of Third World Studies, November 1999--present. Board of Editors, 1995--present. Search Committee for new Editor, JTWS, Spring 2000.
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