VIDEO: Rubin Talks Enduring Reform
Jeff Rubin, associate professor of History, will publish a book on lasting social change in Latin America next month.
“Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America’s Democracies” will be published by Pittsburgh University Press as part of the Pitt Latin American Series on March 6. Rubin is a research associate for the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, an affiliated center with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
The book is being published as the capstone for the Enduring Reform Project, which he co-directs with Vivienne Bennett of California State University San Marcos.
Rubin was recently featured on the academic research site Faculti in a video on the project and upcoming book. You can view the video here.
Said Rubin in the video:
“As I’ve studied Latin America over several decades, I’ve watched two epic battles. In one, people were struggling to overthrow brutal military dictatorships. I also saw struggles to establish basic, decent living conditions for people who are overwhelmingly poor – that mean jobs, food housing, land and education. Today, democracy has been achieved in Latin America, and that in itself is breathtaking…[but] that leaves the problem of jobs, food, housing and education.”
You can pre-order Enduring Reform at Amazon.
Rubin and Bennett will also present a talk on the project on March 24 at Harvard University. Find out more information here.
Rubin has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, and the Center for Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research on Brazil has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the American Philosophical Society.