Steve Stein

Ph.D., Stanford University (1974);
Professor

e-mail: srafael@miami.edu
Office: Rm. 617 Ashe
Phone: (305) 284-2144

      Professor Stein's research area is Modern Latin American history, focusing on the Andean countries and Argentina. He is presently involved in various research projects on the history of wine in Argentina including the writing of a comprehensive history of the Argentine wine industry. His major work has been in the social and cultural history of Peru, concentrating on the evolution of the Lima popular sectors from the early twentieth century through the contemporary period. Dr. Stein's publications on the early twentieth century include Populism in Peru: The Emergence of the Masses and the Politics of Social Control (1980) and Lima obrera 1900-1930 (1985 and 1987). He has also written on Peru during the 1980s, Peru in Crisis (1988), which analyzes the impact of the country's economic crisis on social, political, and cultural changes in the country. He has recently completed a co-edited work with Professor Carol Damian of Florida International University entitled Popular Art and Social Change in the Retablos of Nicario Jiménez Quispe (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005). In addition to his work in the History Department, Dr. Stein is the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. He also teaches wine seminars in the Miami area.