Oppenheim, Lois Hecht
OPPENHEIM, Lois Hecht
OPPENHEIM, Lois Hecht. American, b. 1948. Genres: Administration/ Management, Area studies, Politics/Government. Career: Facultad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias Sociales, Santiago, Chile, visiting researcher, 1972-73; University of Iowa, Iowa City, research assistant, 1975-76; Whittier College, Whittier, CA, instructor, 1976-80, assistant professor, 1980-84, associate professor, 1984-88, professor of political science, 1988-93, department head, 1987-88, head of Latin American Studies Committee, 1985-91, director in residence of Danish International Studies Program, University of Copenhagen, 1988; University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA, visiting professor, 1991-93, professor of political science, 1993-, department head, 1991-, head of Committee on Academic Personnel, 1994-95, 1998-99, acting provost, 2000, vice president for academic affairs, 2001-; Program in Labor Economics (Santiago), visiting researcher, 1987; also conducted field work in Spain, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Brazil, and Denmark. Ful- bright senior lecturer, University of Chile, 1997. Publications: Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development, 1993, 2nd ed., 1999. Contributor to Latin American studies journals, sometimes under the name Lois Susan Oppenheim. Address: Vice President for Academic Affairs, Sunny and Isadore Familian Campus, University of Judaism, 15600 Mulholland Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90077, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]