John R. Brazil
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John R. Brazil is an American
United States
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 professor of history
History
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 and English
English studies
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. He was the president of Trinity University
Trinity University (Texas)
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 in San Antonio, Texas
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 from 2000 until his retirement in January 2010. Prior that he was president of Bradley University
Bradley University
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 in Peoria, Illinois
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 from 1992 until 2000.

Career

He is a native of California
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. He received an A.B. in History
History
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 in 1968 from Stanford University
Stanford University
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. He holds the Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. degrees in American Studies from Yale University
Yale University
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.

He taught at Yale, then at San Jose State University
San José State University
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 where he became academic vice president, and at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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 where he was named chancellor of the university, before leaving to become president of Bradley in 1992. In 2000 he became the 17th president of Trinity University.

He served as a member of the U.S. Department of Education and American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ mission of American
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 university presidents to the Soviet Union
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 in 1989. In 1997 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor degree from the Samara State University
Samara State University
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 in Russia
Russia
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.

He has published extensively in such scholarly journals as the American Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, American Literary Realism, and the Mississippi Quarterly, and has made numerous presentations. He currently has two books in progress, Murder and Twenties America and The Twenties on Trial.

He was a Director of Caterpillar Inc.
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 from 1998 until 2010.

Brazil and his wife, Janice Hosking Brazil, have two children, a son, Adrian, and a daughter, Morgan.

Recognition

He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
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 in 1980. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Kappa Phi
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 honor societies, Beta Gamma Sigma
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 international honor society in business administration, and an honorary member of Gold Key
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 and Delta Mu Delta
Delta Mu Delta
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national honor society in business administration.
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