Charles R. Hale (anthropologist)

Charles R. Hale (born 1957)[1] is a scholar of Latin America, Africa, and the African diaspora.

He was appointed Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018[2] and professor of global studies.

[3] He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association (2006-2007).

in Social Studies at Harvard College and his doctorate at Stanford University.

His publications include two single-author books, which have been translated to Spanish,  “…más que un indio (more than an Indian)”: Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala;[5] and Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987.