| IN MEMORIAM
THOMAS FRANCIS MCGANN
Thomas Francis McGann, professor of history,
died on July 13, 1982. He was 62.
Professor McGann was born on March 25, 1920,
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He earned bachelor s, master s,
and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1941, 1949, and
1952, respectively. He was the Woodbury Lowery Traveling Fellow
and the Milton Fund Fellow while at Harvard.
Dr. McGann taught at Harvard University from
1949 to 1958. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas
at Austin in 1958, where he was teaching at the time of his death.
He was a specialist in Argentine and Spanish history.
Professor McGann wrote Argentina, the United
States, and the Inter-American System(1957) and Argentina,
The Divided Land (1966). He edited Portrait of Spain: British
and American Accounts of Spain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries(1963). He also coedited The New World Looks at
its History: Proceedings of the Second International Congress
of United States and Mexican Historians (1963) and translated
José L. Romero's A History of Argentine Political Thought
(1963).
Professor McGann served on the executive council
of the Latin American Studies Association and as editor of the
Latin American Research Review.
In 1982 he received an award for outstanding
graduate teaching. A memorial in his honor appeared in the Hispanic
American Historical Review in 1983.
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John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty Biographical sketch prepared
by Teresa Palomo Acosta and posted on the Faculty Council web
site on May 24, 2001. Additional biographical sources can be found
in the UT Office of Public Affairs. |
