Donald Marquand Dozer
Donald Marquand Dozer was an American scholar of Latin American history. Born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1905, Dozer received his B.A. in History from the College of Wooster and then earned his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University in 1936. His doctoral dissertation was entitled on “Anti-imperialism in the United States 1865-1895. Opposition to annexation of overseas territories.” He taught at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1942 and then, from 1942-1943 served with the Office of the Coordinator of Information in Washington, DC. From 1943-1944, Dozer served as a liaison in the Caribbean region for the Office of Lend Lease Administration. He then moved to the State Department where he did research and analysis until 1956. He then accepted a call to the History Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he joined Philip Wayne Powell and Wilbur R. Jacobs in building a nucleus of scholars who would become the core for a growing department in the 1960s. Dozer published nearly 100 articles and reviews as well as several well-received books. He retired and was granted emeritus status in 1972, and died in 1980.Selected publications
- Donald Marquand Dozer, Are We Good Neighbors? Three Decades of Inter-American Relations, 1930-1960
- Donald Marquand Dozer, Latin America: An Interpretive History, translated into Portuguese in 1966 as America latina
- Donald Marquand Dozer, ed., The Monroe Doctrine: Its Modern Significance
- Donald Marquand Dozer, The Challenge to Pan Americanism
- Donald Marquand Dozer, Portrait of the Free State: A History of Maryland.
- Donald Marquand Dozer, The Panama Canal in Perspective
