Peter Winn is a professor of history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

 specialising in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

. He has written several books, including Americas, which he developed while serving as academic director for the 1993 PBS series of the same name.

Winn earned a BA from Columbia College in 1962 and a PhD from Cambridge University in 1972.

List of works

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Prof. Peter Winn taught at Princeton University during the 1970s, where he taught Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Suprme Court, in four classes and where he was her senior thesis advisor. See Antonia Felix,Sonia Sotomayor. The True American Dream (Berkeley Books, New York 2010) at 44.

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• Faculty page at Tufts University
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  Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
  
  
• Profile from the Tufts Observer