Miguel tinker salas biography
Miguel Tinker Salas (born in Caripito) is a Venezuelan historian and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California..
Tinker-Salas was born in Venezuela and is a U.S. citizen, having lived in the United States since high school.Miguel Tinker Salas
American historian of modern Latin America
Miguel Tinker Salas (born 1953 in Caripito) is a Venezuelan historian and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
He specializes in modern Latin America having written books, edited volumes, and essays on Mexico and Venezuela. He frequently serves as a political analyst and his comments can be seen on television, radio, and print media.
Life
Tinker Salas earned his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. in history from the University of California in San Diego.
Biography.
He began his career as a professor teaching at University of California at San Diego and Arizona State University. Since 1993, Tinker Salas has served as a professor of history and Chicano/a and Latino/a studies at Pomona College.
In 2005, he became an endowed chair and Professor in Latin American History and coordinator of the Latin American Studies Program 2006-2011 and 2019–present. He has also served as the chair of the History department 200