Edward J. McCaughan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at San Francisco State University, is a researcher, writer, and curator. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from UCSC.
Ed has authored several books, including Arte y movimientos sociales: politica cultural in México y Aztlán (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, in press, 2023); Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán (Duke University Press, 2012); Reinventando la revolución: La renovación del discurso de la izquierda en Cuba y México (Siglo XXI, 1999); Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico (Westview Press, 1997); México-Estados Unidos: Relaciones económicas y lucha de clases (with Peter Baird, Ediciones ERA, 1982); and Beyond the Border: Mexico and the U.S Today (with Peter Baird, NACLA, 1979).
Among McCaughan’s edited books are: Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements (with Maylei Blackwell, Social Justice, 2015); The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 (with Robert McKee Irwin and Michelle Rocío Nasser, Palgrave, 2003); Latin America Faces the 21st Century: Reconstructing a Social Justice Agenda (with Susanne Jonas, Westview, 1994); Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial (with Susanne Jonas and Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez, Synthesis Publications, 1984).
Ed is also the author of more than a dozen journal articles, including most recently “’We Didn’t Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us’: Artists’ Images of the US-Mexico Border and Immigration,” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2020), also published in Spanish in Argumentos: Estudios críticos de la sociedad (nú. 90, 2019).
He has curated exhibitions at Galería de la Raza, San Francisco State University, the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, and the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Ed is a long-time activist in anti-imperialist, international solidarity, human rights, immigrant rights, and labor rights movements.
He lives in Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico, with his husband, artist John Kaine, his 95-year-old suegra, two dogs, and two cats.