Robert G. Mead, Jr. Papers. 1939-2000.

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Robert G. Mead, Jr. Papers. 1939-2000.

Born in Cleveland in 1913, Mead spent most of his early years in Mexico, developing great facility in both English and Spanish. He worked for the OSS during World War II gathering intelligence from Latin American periodicals. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1949, Mead became a professor at the University of Connecticut. In addition to a long and prestigious career as a teacher of foreign languages, Mead was a prolific scholar on Hispanic literature and an advocate for improved Inter-American relations. He also edited the journal from 1957 to 1962. Mead traveled the world as a lecturer and as an advisor on the teaching of Spanish. He passed away in 1995. Hispania

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