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Dr. Robert Maguire became
the Director of Programs in International Affairs at Trinity in September 2000. His activities at Trinity,
where he also holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor
in International Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences,
include the creation, administration and oversight of post-graduate
and undergraduate programs in international affairs, as
well as some classroom teaching.
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Dr. Maguire earned a Ph.D. in Geography
from McGill University, an MA in Latin American Studies from the
University of Florida, and a BA in Secondary Education/Social
Studies from Trenton State College, now the College of New Jersey.
While at McGill University, he undertook Ph.D. field research
in South Louisiana. Eventually, his research was published as
Hustling to Survive: Social and Economic Change in a South
Louisiana Black Creole Community (Projet Louisiane, monographie
no. 2, Universite Laval, 1989).
Bob joined the staff of Trinity
following a career in federal government service as a specialist
in Latin America and the Caribbean, grassroots development, and
political economy. His government service included stints with
the Inter-American Foundation and the Department of State, along
with an earlier tour as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Caribbean
island of Dominica.
Dr. Maguire is best known for his work
on Haiti, having been involved with that country since the mid
1970's through affiliations with the Inter-American Foundation,
the Department of State, and Johns Hopkins, Brown and Georgetown
Universities. He has been published extensively on issues of economic
and grassroots development, governance and politics, the Haitian
peasantry, public security, international assistance, and state/civil
society relations. Among his publications on Haiti are Bottom-Up
Development in Haiti (Inter-American Foundation, 1981, 2nd
Edition) and Haiti Held Hostage: International Responses to
the Quest for Nationhood - 1986 - 1996 (Watson Institute for
International Studies and the United Nations University, 1997).
Most recently, his essay, "Haiti: El Marasmo Politica",
was published in Caracas in Nueva Sociedad (No. 175, Sept
- Oct 2001).
From 1994 - 2001, Bob served as the Coordinator
of the Georgetown University Haiti Program, supported by the Ford
Foundation to serve as a vehicle for the dissemination of information
and analysis on issues linked to Haiti and to US-Haiti policy.
In December 2001, he was awarded a grant from the Rockefeller
Foundation to continue his policy-related work on Haiti exclusively
from his location at Trinity, and to extend that work
into issues related to the contributions made by Haiti and the
Haitian Diaspora population to the well being of the United States
(see Haiti Program). Since 1990,
Dr. Maguire has served as the Chair of Haiti Advanced Area Studies
at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute. Bob is
consulted on Haiti and Caribbean issues by a variety of government
agencies and non-governmental organizations, and regularly makes
public presentations that address issues of development in Haiti,
the role of the international community, and US-Haiti policy.
He has traveled to Haiti at least 100 times and is fluent in Creole.
Bob has an applied research interest in
the music of the Caribbean. Among his musical compositions is
"Dominica: Land of Such Beauty", recorded by the Siffleur
Montagne Chorale and, more recently, by the British-Dominican
group Sisserou, and played extensively on Dominica's national
radio station. In 1998, Dr. Maguire joined the faculty of the
Summer School of the Chautauqua Institution in New York, where
he teaches an annual seminar on the Caribbean and its music.
The courses Dr. Maguire currently teaches
at Trinity are:
