James Brennan specializes in modern Latin American history. Among his interests are industry and labor, the political economy of Latin American populism, the Latin American left, political violence, human rights, and twentieth-century revolution. Brennan taught at Harvard and Georgetown before joining the faculty at UCR in 1996. Brennan is the author of two books and the editor of two others as well as having published a number of journal articles and book chapters. He is now working on two separate research projects. The first is a socio-cultural study of political violence, human rights, and the 'dirty war' in Argentina in the 1970s. The second is a study of world and labor systems, work, community, and environmental change in mining economies in the Americas. Brennan has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Tinker Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, and was a recipient of the University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000. He was awarded a fellowship for 2010-2011 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct research for the project on political violence in Argentina. During the 2011-12 academic year he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.