He was a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1948 to 1987, where he established the Latin American Studies program and served as its chair department from 1973 to 1977.
He was the author of four widely reviewed books about Latin America and the recipient of scholarly awards.
[1] He joined the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles as a faculty member in 1948, where he established the Latin American Studies program.
[1] He subsequently served as the director of UCLA's International Studies and Overseas Programs from 1985 to 1987, when he retired.
His first book, co-authored with UCLA professor Roland D. Hussey, was entitled Documents on Inter-American Cooperation.
A year later, in 1962, he published his third book, The Stillborn Panama Congress: Power Politics and Chilean-Colombian Relations During the War of the Pacific.