Daniel M. Masterson

Short Biography

Daniel Masterson is a professor of Latin American history and Immigration Studies at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Over the past three decades his work has focused on Latin American militarism, Asia migration to Latin America, revolutionary politics, terrorism, counter-insurgency, race, and ethnicity. His most recent books are: Fuerza Armada y Sociedad en el Perú Moderno (Lima, 2001), The Japanese in Latin America, with Sayaka Funada Classen (Urbana, Illinois, 2004), and The History of Peru (Westport, CT, 2009). Masterson is now turning to the study of Irish revolutionary politics and nationalism and is in the process of research and writing a book with his brother Donald to be titled The Black and Tans in Irish Memory.