James N. Green

James N. Green is the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Modern Latin American History and Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University.
Education.
Green was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 22, 1951. Raised as a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), he attended Earlham College, where he studied political science and German. He received a Master's degree in Latin American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles in 1992 and a doctorate in Latin American history from University of California, Los Angeles, with a focus on Brazil in 1996.
Career.
After studying at UCLA, Green taught eight years at California State University, Long Beach, before moving to Brown University in 2005. He served as the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies from 2005 until 2008, and the Director of the Brown Brazil Initiative from 2013 to 2020. Green has been the President (2002–04) and Executive Secretary (2015–20) of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), and the President of the New England Council of Latin American Studies (2008–09). He established the Opening the Archives Project at Brown University that has digitalized, indexed and made available to the public on an open-access website over 40,000 U.S. government documents about Brazil produced at the height of the Cold War during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–85). Green also currently serves as the National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil.