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Associate Director and Associate Research Social Scientist, Center for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. University of Arizona

As Associate Director of the Center for Latin American Studies Raúl is the advisor for both graduate and undergraduate students. He teaches a graduate research seminar, the undergraduate capstone colloquium and a freshman colloquium about the U.S.-Mexico border. Raúl also coordinates the internship program. He has received several grants for training Latin American educators and local government members and, as a political scientist, has research interests in Peruvian and Mexican politics. During a Spring, 1999 sabbatical, Raúl conducted research in Peru and Ecuador on the prospects for integration and development along their common border. He is a member of the executive board of Fundación México and the education committee of the Arizona-México Commission. Raúl was born and raised in Bisbee, Arizona and has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Arizona and a B.S in foreign service from Georgetown University.  He has been part  of the CLAS team since 1986.

Area studies courses: Intellectuals and the Left in Latin American Literature and Politics; Contemporary Issues in Latin American Society and Politics; Modern Latin America: A Social Science Perspective

Selected Publications

Saba, Raúl P.  2003.  The Arizona-Sonora and Ecuador-Peru Borderlands: Common Interests and Shared Goals in Diverse Settings.  Journal of the Southwest (Winter): 633-648.

Saba, Raúl P.  2002.  Sonora-Arizona y Ecuador-Peru, dos fronteras, una intención"/Northern and Southern Borderlands: Arizona-Sonora and Ecuador-Peru.  Horizonentes: Revista de encuentro entre Sonora y Arizona (Bilingual Journal of the Institute of Education, Sonora-Arizona Commission (enero-junio): 7-14.

Saba, Raúl P.  1999.  From Peace to Partnership: The Challenges of Integration and Development Along the Peru-Ecuador Border.  Journal of Borderlands Studies

Saba, Raúl P.  1993.  Peru’s Informal Sector: Hope in the Midst of Crisis.  SALALM Proceedings

Saba, Raúl P.  1987.  Political Development and Democracy in Peru: Continuity in Change and Crisis. Boulder: Westview Press.