Braulio Munoz
Centennial Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Emeritus Sociology & Anthropology
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Education
Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1977
B.A. in Sociology, University of Rhode Island, 1973
Selected Publications and Activities
Academic books:
Looking North: Spanish American Perceptions of the United States, 1809-2008, with John Hassett. University of Arizona Press, 2013.
A Storyteller: Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Paperback: 2000.
Tensions in Social Theory: Groundwork for a Future Moral Sociology, Presidential Series on Ethics and Values, Loyola University Press, 1993.
Sons of the Wind: The Search for Identity in Spanish American Indian Literature, New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press, 1982. Paperback: 1982.
Spanish Edition: Huairapamushcas: La busqueda de la identidad en la novela indigenista hispanoamericana. Ediciones de la Universidad de la Frontera, Chile, 1996.
Novels and Poetry:
Plaza mayor, poetry/prose, Celacanto, Lima, 2018.
El Misha, novel, Estruendomudo, Lima: 2014.
Los Apuntes de Alejandro, novel, Rio Santa Editores, Chimbote, Peru. 2009. English Edition: forthcoming.
The Peruvian Notebooks. University of Arizona Press, 2006. Italian Edition: I Quaderni Peruviani, Gorèe, 2009.
Alejandro y los pescadores de Tancay. Andrea Lippolis Editore, Messina. 2004. Fourth Edition: San Marcos Press, Lima. Italian Edition: Edizioni Gorée, Siena, 2007. Vittoria Iguazu editora, La Toscana, 2013. English Edition: University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2008. First prize: International Latino Book Award. New York, 2009
Teaching and Research Interests
Social Theory and Social Philosophy; Sociology of Culture; Latin America.
Courses and Seminars Taught
- Freshman Seminar: Introduction to Contemporary Social Thought.
- Selected Topics in Social Theory
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Modern Social Theory
- Critical Social Theory
- Art and Society
- Latin America: Society and Culture
- Spanish America Through Its Novel
