Julio Cesar Pino
| Julio Cesar Pino | |
|---|---|
 Pino in 2012 | |
| Born |
1960 Havana, Cuba |
| Nationality | Cuban-American |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Title | Associate Professor of History |
| Website |
www |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA, 1984; MA, 1987; PhD, 1991) |
| Thesis title | "Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro" |
| Thesis year | 1997 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Kent State University |
| Main interests |
Latin America Third World Islam History of Race |
Julio Cesar Pino is tenured Associate Professor of History at Kent State University, Ohio, specializing in Latin American History and the Third World.He received his Ph.D in History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His courses include "Comparative Third World Revolutions.", Afro-Latin America, History of Women in Latin America" and "The Sixties: A Third World View." [1]
In 1997 he published "Family and Favela: the Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro" (Greenwood Press), dealing with household organization and the feminization of poverty in the Rio shantytowns. He is the author of numerous articles in Latin American Research Review, Journal of Urban History, Latin American Perspectives and other journals. Dr. Pino also has a deep interest in pedagogy, and has published articles in "The History Teacher" and "Perspectives" magazine of the American Historical Association. His current research project is a study of nineteenth-century African Muslim slaves and free persons in Brazil. Dr. Pino is listed in Who's Who in American Education and Who's Who in America. He is a Contributing Editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is also engaged in a study of the historiography of working women in Latin America from pre-colonization to globalization.[1]
Dr. Pino's writings on Third World shantytowns have been published and cited in critical reference works such as Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (DuBois Center: Harvard University) and Encyclopedia of Third World Poverty. His books and articles are regularly taught in courses, from women's studies to urban history, at leading universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America.[1]
Biography
Julio Cesar Pino was born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, the year after Fidel Castro’s rebel forces first entered the city during Cuba’s Communist Revolution.
Political controversies
Pino has been involved in a long series of controversies relating to American foreign policy, Islam, suicide bombing, jihad, and Israel. [2]These include a 2012 newspaper column praising the actions of the terrorist who carried out the Kiryat Yovel supermarket bombing,[3] and a letter critical of American policy that read, in part, "“You attack, and continue to attack, us everywhere... The ill done to the Muslim nations must be requited.[4] In 2011 he was investigated by the Secret Service after calling president Bush a "cocaine cowboy."[4] In November 2007, Kent State demoted the chair the history department for failing to follow procedure when it authorized a fully paid, mid-semester, 6-week trip to the United Arab Emirates where Pinto wished to study Arabic. Pino was recalled to his teaching post before completing the 6 weeks.[4] In 2011 a public controversy ensued after Pino shouted "Death to Israel" during a talk given at Kent State by Ishmael Khaldi, an Israeli diplomat. University President Lester Lefton condemned Pino's behavior as "reprehensible, and an embarrassment to our university," defending Pino's right to free speech but finding his behavior, "deplorable."[5][6][4][7][8] Pino has been involved in a series of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic actions, writing an open letter in 2014 asserting of Israeli Jews that, "The Chosen drain the blood of innocents." [9]
2016 FBI investigation
Julio Pino returned to the headlines in January 2016 when information surfaced that the FBI was interviewing students and professors for possible ties between Pino and ISIS. Pino denied the allegations against him in an email to Inside Higher Ed, saying, "My only commitment is to serve my students as guided by the light of knowledge. I have no ties to any political organization, nor do I recruit for any cause." A university spokesperson confirmed that he is still teaching at this time. Kent State said in a statement that it is cooperating with an ongoing investigation, and said the FBI had assured it there was no threat to the campus.[10][11] Pino said neither the FBI nor Homeland Security has notified him of any sort of investigation.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 "Julio Cesar Pino". kent.edu. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- 1 2 "Who is Julio Pino?". KentWired.com. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ Stoil, Rebecca Anna (30 October 2011). "Kent State president lambasts Israel bashing professor". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Biliczky, Carol (27 October 2011). "Anti-Israel statement by Kent professor Julio Pino stokes anger". Akron Beacon Journal.
- ↑ Jaschik, Scott (31 October 2011). "When a Prof Shouts 'Death to Israel'". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ "President Lefton's Response to Recent Guest Lecturer". 27 October 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ Mozgovaya, Natasha (28 October 2011). "Kent State Professor Yells 'Death to Israel' at Israeli Diplomat". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ Starnes, Todd (28 October 2011). "Professor's 'Death to Israel' Rant Sparks Controversy at Kent State University". Fos News. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ "Kent State history professor says "academic friends of Israel" are "directly responsible for the murder of over 1,400 Palestinian children, women and elderly civilians"". History News Network. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ "Kent State Prof Probed for Possible Ties to ISIS". Inside Higher Ed. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ Brennan, Christopher (20 January 2015). "Kent State University professor under FBI investigation for alleged ties to ISIS". New York Daily News. Retrieved 21 January 2016.