A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, born in 1920, Thomas Francis McGann was a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in 1941 and received his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard as well. After teaching at Harvard from 1949 to 1958, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, becoming professor of history in 1961. In the twenty-five years of teaching that followed, McGann held visiting appointments at Stanford University, Columbia University, the Naval War College, and the Air Force Academy. McGann's primary concentration in Latin American history was Argentina. He was editor of the Latin American Research Review for five years and a member of the board of editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review . At the University of Texas, McGann served as acting chairman of the Department of History and as chairman of the department's Graduate Studies Committee. He was chairman of the Board of Faculty Advisors of the University of Texas Press, and served as chairman of the Publications Committee of the Institute of Latin American Studies.
From the guide to the Thomas F. McGann Papers, 1945-1980., (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
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