Thomas H. Holloway is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He has served as Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University, where he taught from 1974 to 2000, as President of the Latin American Studies Association (2000-2001), and as Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History (2003-2007). He is also the author of Policing Rio de Janeiro (1993), and is the general editor of A Companion to Latin American History (2008).
