Herbert s klein biography
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Herbert Klein
Professor of History (Teaching) and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
Bio
I was born in New York City in the borough of the Bronx on January 6, 1936. I attended public schools in Far Rockaway Queens. After graduating Far Rockaway High School, I first attended Syracuse University from 1953 to 1955 and then transferred to the University of Chicago, where I obtained a BA in history in 1957, an MA in 1959 and a PhD in 1963 with a major in history and a minor in anthropology. I taught Latin American history at the University of Chicago from 1962 to 1969, rising from lecturer to the rank of associate professor with tenure. I then taught at Columbia University from 1969 to 2005, being named the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History in 2003. I retired from Columbia in 2005 and was named professor of history and director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University from 2005 to 2011. After my retirement as director, I was named research fellow and curator of Latin American Collection, of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University in 2011–2017.
My main areas of interests are in comparative social history, quantitative methods in historical research and demographic history. I have published some 25 books dealing with
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Klein, Herbert
Education
B.A. — Institution of higher education of City, 1957
M.A. — Further education college of Metropolis, 1959
Ph.D. — Academy of Port, 1963
Interests endure Research
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Herbert S. Klein
About
Herbert S. Klein is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and curator of the Latin America collection in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. He had been a professor of history and the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
Klein received his BA in 1957 and his PhD in 1963, both from the University of Chicago. Before his appointment at Stanford, he taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University and is the Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University.
He is the author or coauthor (in several languages) of more than thirty books and 195 articles on Latin America and on comparative themes in social and economic history. The Brazilian Academy of Letters awarded its 2010 Literary Prize for History and Social Science to him for Escravismo em São Paulo e Minas Gerais (coauthored) (2010). He received the Alfonso Reyes Prize, of the Colegio de México in 2019, and an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Santiago, Chile also in 2019. He has spent the last several years writing on Brazilian history, with his co-author Francisco Vidal Luna of the Universidade de São Paulo. Among their books are Brazil Since 1980 (2006); Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo,