BIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSOR SANCHEZ

Professor Nicolás Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1945. He left Havana at the end of 1960 as a refugee teen-ager with the Pedro Pan program (a Catholic relief program which helped unaccompanied refugee children from Cuba). He lived one year in Florida, nine years in California, and six years in Texas—moving on to Massachusetts in 1977 to teach at the College of the Holy Cross. He has now completed 29 years of teaching at this college, where he is Professor of Economics.

In 1967 he obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics (cum laude) from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona , CA . He went on to obtain a Master of Arts Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree, both in Economics, from the University of Southern California in 1969 and 1972, respectively. His first full time academic post was at Texas A&M University , where he taught, among other things, Economic Growth and Development at the graduate level.

His publications have appeared in some of the top Economics journals in the United States and abroad, including Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Cuadernos de Economía, Review of Economics and Statistics, Explorations in Economic History, Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviorand Organization, Atlantic Economic Journal and Land Economics. His field of specialization is property rights analysis, but his interest in Cuban affairs has also led him to publish articles and reviews for Cuba in Transition, Cuban Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics and South Eastern Latin Americanist. In addition, he has published other articles and reviews in books, magazines and newspapers.

Professor Sánchez has also been a guest lecturer at Brandeis University, the University of Miami (FL), the University of Valladolid (Spain), the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico and the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (both in Mexico City), the University of Puerto Rico, Brown University, the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California and the University of Delaware.

In 1992 Professor Sánchez was elected to the School Committee in his hometown of Framingham, MA, serving for three years. In June of 1999 he was elected President of the Cuban Cultural Center of Boston, and was re-elected to this post in June 2000 and again in June 2003. In August of 2005 he was appointed member of the Pilot Study Committee in his hometown of Framingham, MA. He served in this important committee until a report was finished in April of 2006.

While at Holy Cross, he has taught the following Economics courses: Advanced Macroeconomics, Theory of International Trade, International Monetary Theory, Economic Growth and Development, Intermediate Macro and Micro Economics, Operations Research, the Economics of Property Rights, the Economics of Discrimination, Money and Banking, Latin America in the World Economy, African Institutional Development and both Principles of Macro and Principles of Micro Economics. In addition, he has taught courses for an interdisciplinary sequence, the First Year Program and the College Honors Program. He was also Chairperson of the Economics Department for three years and Chair of the Economics Honors Program for three years. He supervised a group of twenty-three Holy Cross students on a visit to Cuba in 2003. Also, he has directed College Honors and Department Honors Theses, and offered several tutorials.