Professor at The Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey. She has also been a senior associate member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford; a faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh’s Semester-at-Sea Program; a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico; and a research team supervisor at American University. She has authored or edited and co-authored a dozen books and has co-authored a dozen more. She has also published over 200 chapters and articles in reference books, anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers.
By Jan K. Black It was often said in Latin America in the early 1960s that when the United States sneezed, Latin America caught pneumonia. In fact, it was repeated year after year until the fall of 2008, when the United States caught pneumonia and Latin America sneezed. Brazil, in particular, after a short spell […]
In her 1977 book “United States Penetration of Brazil“, former CIA researcher, Professor Jan K Black exposed the complex role the US had played in Brazil’s 1964 coup and its governance since. This extremely detailed forensic investigation should be a standard reference for anyone studying the 1964 coup, the dictatorship period and relations between the countries, both then, […]