Patrick Barr-Melej

Patrick Barr-Melej is Professor of History at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, specializing in modern Latin America. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Barr-Melej’s publications include the books _Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship_ (2017) and _Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class_ (2001). His articles have appeared in such journals as the _Hispanic American Historical Review_, the _Journal of Latin American Studies_, and _The Americas_, and he has given presentations on his research on four continents, including invited talks at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), the University of Oxford, and the National Library of Chile. Barr-Melej has held visiting professorships at Chile’s Pontifical Catholic University and University of Concepción. His graduate students in History and Latin American Studies have produced M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations on such topics as Guatemalan revolutionary ideology; U.S-Chilean relations in the 1960s; opposition journalism under the Pinochet dictatorship; cultural politics in post-Sandinista Nicaragua; gender and economy on the U.S.-Mexican border; and human-rights policy in Argentina after the Dirty War.