Herbert S. Klein, Hoover's Curator for Latin American collections, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate at a ceremony at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. A longtime Hoover fellow, Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, and former director of Stanford's Center for Latin America Studies, Klein is the author of more than twenty books and more than 160 articles. A world-renowned expert on twentieth-century Latin American economics and politics, Klein continues to research, publish, and collect materials for Hoover's holdings. His own papers are available at Hoover Archives.

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