From 1943 to 1944, Dozer was a liaison in the Caribbean region for the Office of Lend Lease Administration.
[1] He moved to the State Department, where he did research and analysis (especially on Argentina) until 1956.
[3] 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 of a growing department in the 1960s.
Dozer published approximately 100 articles and reviews as well as several well-received books.
He retired and was granted emeritus status in 1972, and died in 1980, aged 75, at Saint Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara.