Burns, E. Bradford

Edward Bradford Burns was born on Aug. 28, 1932 in Muscatine, IA; BA, Univ. of IA, 1954; MA, Tulane Univ., 1955; Ph. D, Columbia Univ., 1964; also studied in Guatemala, Portugal, Venezuela and Brazil; instructor, SUNY Buffalo, 1963-64; asst. professor of history at UCLA, 1964-67; assoc. professor, Columbia Univ., 1967-69; professor, UCLA, 1969-93; from 1979-1983, he served as the first Dean of the Honors Division in the UCLA College of Letters and Science; his awards include the Order of Rio-Branco (presented by the Brazilian government in 1966), the Bolton Memorial Prize (1967) the Hubert Herring award (1979), and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching award (1987); served as American Historical Assn. Pacific Coast branch president, 1994; his publications include: The unwritten alliance : Rio-Branco and Brazilian-American relations (1966), A history of Brazil (1970), Latin America : a concise interpretive history (1972), Latin American cinema : film and history (1975), Teaching Latin American history (1977), The poverty of progress : Latin America in the nineteenth century (c1980), At war in Nicaragua : the Reagan doctrine and the politics of nostalgia (c1987), and Kinship with the land : regionalist thought in Iowa, 1894-1942 (c1996); he died on Dec. 19, 1995 in Los Angeles.

From the description of Papers, 1953-1995. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41611706

Biography

Edward Bradford Burns was born on August 28, 1932 in Muscatine, Indiana; BA, University of IA, 1954; MA, Tulane University, 1955; Ph.D, Columbia University, 1964; also studied in Guatemala, Portugal, Venezuela and Brazil; instructor, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1963-64; assistant professor of history at UCLA, 1964-67; associate professor, Columbia University, 1967-69; professor, UCLA, 1969-93; from 1979-1983, he served as the first Dean of the Honors Division in the UCLA College of Letters and Science; his awards include the Order of Rio-Branco (presented by the Brazilian government in 1966), the Bolton Memorial Prize (1967) the Hubert Herring award (1979), and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching award (1987); served as American Historical Association Pacific Coast branch president, 1994; his publications include: The Unwritten Alliance: Rio-Branco and Brazilian-American Relations (1966), A History of Brazil (1970), Latin America: a Concise Interpretive History (1972), Latin American Cinema: Film and History (1975), Teaching Latin American History (1977), The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (c1980), At War in Nicaragua: the Reagan Doctrine and the Politics of Nostalgia (c. 1987), and Kinship With the Land: Regionalist Thought in Iowa, 1894-1942 (c. 1996); he died on December 19, 1995 in Los Angeles.

From the guide to the E. Bradford Burns Papers, 1953-1995, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)