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Roderic Ai Camp (born 1945) is an American academic specialized in
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studies. He is a frequent consultant to international media including the
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. He has briefed several institutions, including the
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Committee on Foreign Relations, and at least five U.S. ambassadors to Mexico for the
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. Currently, he is the Philip McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at
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Biography

Camp was born in
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, to Ortho O. Camp, a small businessman, and Helen Camp, a counselor. He has served as a
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in the U.S. Marine Corps. He and his wife,
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Emily Ellen Morse married October 1, 1966. They have two children: Christopher, Alexander. Camp graduated with both a
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(1963–66) and a
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in International Affairs (1966–67) from
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and completed a doctorate degree in Comparative Politics and History at the
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(1967–70). He tracks his interest in Mexican topics back to his years growing up among Mexican immigrants in
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. He started his academic career at Central College in
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and later joined the Department of Political Science at
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in 1991. He has also worked as a visiting scholar at , as a fellow and member of the advisory board of the Mexico Institute at the
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, and as an adjunct fellow of the Mexico Program at the
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in
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Over the course of his studies he has received a
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on three occasions, two major grants from the
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, and a Howard Heinz Foundation fellowship. On 15 October 2009, Camp received a
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from St. Olaf College. In September, 2017, he received the Order of the Aztec Eagle Medal, the highest award the Mexican government can award a foreigner, for his contributions to Mexicans and Mexico. In 2017, he became a Global Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution.


Selected publications

Camp has written more than thirty books, most of them on topics related to
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. Eight of them have received "Outstanding" designations by ''Choice magazine'', a publication of the
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. * ''The Role of Economists in Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Mexico and the United States'' (
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, 1977) * ''Mexico's Leaders, Their Education and Recruitment'' (University of Arizona Press, 1980). * ''The Making of a Government: The Socialization of Political Leaders in Post-Revolutionary Mexico'' (University of Arizona Press, 1984). Winner of the "Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1985". * ''Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth Century Mexico'' (
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, 1985). Winner of the "Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1986". * ''Mexico's Political Stability, the Next Five Years'' (Editor, Westview Press, 1986). * ''Memoirs of a Mexican Politician'' (
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, 1988). * ''Entrepreneurs and Politics in Twentieth Century Mexico'' (
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, 1989). * ''Mexican Political Biographies, 1884-1935'' (University of Texas Press, 1991). * ''Generals in the , the Military in Modern Mexico'' (Oxford University Press, 1992). * ''Who's Who in Mexico Today'' (
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, 1993). Winner of the "Choice Outstanding Reference Book, 1988". * ''Politics in Mexico, the Democratic Consolidation'' (Oxford University Press, 2007). Winner of the "Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1993" and recommended in the Council on Foreign Relations Reading List on Mexican Politics blog by Shannon O'Neil, August 18, 2009. * ''The Successor, A Political Thriller'' (University of New Mexico Press, 1993). * ''Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993'' (University of Texas Press, 1995). Winner of the "American Reference Book Annual Outstanding Reference Book" and "Choice Outstanding Academic Book". * ''Political Recruitment Across Two Centuries, Mexico, 1884-1999'' (University of Texas Press, 1995). * ''Crossing Swords, Politics and Religion in Mexico'' (Oxford University Press, 1997). * ''Editor, Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America'' (
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, 2001). * ''Mexico's Mandarins, Crafting a Power Elite for the 21st Century'' (
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, 2002). * ''Mexico's Military on the Democratic Stage'' ( Center for Strategic & International Studies/ Praeger, 2005). * ''Politics in Mexico, The Democratic Consolidation'' (Oxford University Press, 2007). * ''The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico'' (Oxford University Press, 2010). * ''Mexico, What Everyone Needs to Know'' (Oxford University Press, 2011). * ''Mexican Political Biographies, 1939-2009'' 4th edit. (University of Texas Press, 2011)Winner of the "Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2011" * ''Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics'' (Oxford University Press, 2012). * Politics in Mexico, Democratic Consolidation or Decline? (Oxford University Press, 2013). * Mexico, What Everyone Needs to Know" 2nd edit. (Oxford University Press, 2017). * Politics in Mexico, The Path of a New Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2019).


References


External links


Roderic Ai Camp's homepage at Claremont McKenna College.
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