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Gabe Paquette is Professor of History at the University of Maine. He previously held research and teaching positions at Cambridge, Harvard , Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins and Oregon. His research focuses on aspects of European, Latin American and International History.

Paquette has served in several academic leadership roles. At Maine, he is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development. At Oregon, he was Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and coordinated the Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing. He previously served as Dean of the Clark Honors College. At Johns Hopkins, he was Director of the Latin American Studies Program and a Provost’s Fellow. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of book series, including Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, and as a member of numerous committees for leading professional societies, including Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association.

Paquette enjoys writing for the wider public. Over the years, his essays have appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Ed, History Today, the Times Literary Supplement, and Público, among other publications.