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Latin American Doctoral Dissertations of the 1960s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Nelly S. González
Nelly S. González*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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The decade of the 1960s ushered in a “New Frontier” for scholarly interest in all aspects of Latin American life. This trend was reflected in the curricula of American and Canadian institutions of higher education as they embarked on expanded programs in Latin American studies. This intensified effort resulted in an unprecedented number of doctoral dissertations on Latin American topics being submitted at 152 U.S. and Canadian universities. This research will be analyzed by drawing primarily on two bibliographic works: Allen Bushong's 1967 work, “Doctoral Dissertations on Pan American Topics Accepted by United States and Canadian Colleges and Universities 1961-1965” (LARR 2, No. 2 Supplement [Spring 1967]), and my Doctoral Dissertations on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Analysis and Bibliography of Dissertations Accepted at American and Canadian Universities, 1966-1970 (Publication No. 10 of the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, 1980). A comparison of the decade will also be made with the period 1861-1960.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , 1983 , pp. 157 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. Allen David Bushong, “Doctoral Dissertations on Pan American Topics Accepted by United States and Canadian Colleges and Universities 1961-1965,” Latin American Research Review 2, No. 2 supplement (Spring 1967):1-2. Nelly S. González, Doctoral Dissertations on Latin America and the Caribbean, Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs Publication No. 10, 1980, p. ix. This article concentrates on general regional trends. For detailed analyses of the distribution of dissertation research, see the above-cited works by Bushong and González.

2. González, pp. xiii-xiv.

3. For an overview of published bibliographies of dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities, see González, pp. xiii-xiv.

4. Bushong, p. 2.

5. González, p. xix.

6. González, p. xxii.

7. Frederick Elwyn Kidder and Allen David Bushong, Theses on Pan-American Topics Prepared by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees in Universities and Colleges in the United States and Canada, 4th ed., Bibliographic Series No. 5 (Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1962).

8. Appearing each year in American Doctoral Dissertations (ADD), ten-year statistical tables provide an annual breakdown by discipline and year of dissertations completed in that decade.

9. Statistics provided by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan.