Ed McCaughan joined SFSU's Sociology Department in 2005. He received a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1995. He taught at Loyola University New Orleans for nine years and served as chair of the sociology department there from 2002-2005.
Dr. McCaughan’s primary research interests involve social change in contemporary Latin America, especially Mexico, where he has traveled extensively for more than thirty years. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico in 1994–95 and again in 2006, and in 2001 he received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current research and writing are focused on art and social movements in Mexico.
He has published five books, two of which were also published in Spanish, and his articles have appeared in such journals as the Fernand Braudel Center’s Review, Latin American Perspectives, Nepantla: View from South, Research on Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Global Development Studies, NACLA’s Report on the Americas, and Peace Review. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Social Justice.
Dr. McCaughan currently teaches Sociological Perspectives (SOC 105) and Sociological Theories (SOC 370). At Loyola University New Orleans, he taught a variety of courses, including Social Problems, Cultural Anthropology, Peoples of Latin America, Women in Latin America, and Third World Repression and Revolution.
He lives in Oakland with his partner, artist John Kaine, whose paintings you can view by clicking on his name.
With friends at the ex-Hacienda la Soledad in
Oaxaca, Mexico,
where my partner John and I are building a second home.