AN ESSAY written by Squires Professor of History Kenneth D. Lehman on the current political situation in Bolivia has been translated into Spanish and is scheduled to be published in a volume edited by Brian Loveman entitled Un “Remedio que Mata”? Las Políticas de Estados Unidos y el Desorden Político en Bolivia, 1985-2006.

Lehman is currently revising a paper he presented as part of a panel which he organized for the Democracy conference that was jointly sponsored by the College and Longwood University last January. His paper, “Evo-Lution: Evo Morales and the Future of Bolivian
Democracy,” is scheduled to appear in a volume being prepared by the conference organizers and the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission.

At the 2007 meeting of the Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, Lehman presented a paper on “CambiKollas: Highland Migrants to Bolivia’s Oriente and their Role in the Sharpening Divide”; and at the Latin American Studies Association meeting in Montreal in the fall, he presented “Andean Peaks and Valleys in a Flat World: Evo Morales, Thomas Friedman, and Bolivia’s Gas Nationalization.” Also in the fall Lehman and Longwood University Professor Ed Kinman spoke on “Latin America: Why Aren’t They More Like Us?” at Longwood University.

During 2007 Lehman served as assistant editor of Latin American Essays, the journal of the Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies. He also wrote a book review for Hispanic American Historical Review and evaluated a Spanish language article for the Organization of American History’s David Thelen Award “for articles offering a unique perspective on American history in a language other than English.” For the second year Lehman evaluated research proposals in Latin American history for possible funding by the Council of Learned Societies.

Lehman, who was promoted to the rank of professor in 2005, came to the College in 1992 with a B.A. from Eastern Mennonite College, an M.A. from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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