Chassen-Lopez Named Distinguished Professor – University of Kentucky From: news.uky.edu

Francie Chassen-Lopez of the Department of History has been named the 2008-09 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. Each year the college selects a faculty member to serve in the Distinguished Professor position and deliver a lecture on the topic of their choice. Chassen-Lopez’s lecture will take place in fall of 2009.

Chassen-Lopez arrived in Lexington in 1988, having previously taught for 10 years in Mexico City, first at the National University and later at the Metropolitan University where she became an associate professor with tenure. Since that time she has served as former director of the Latin American Studies Program at UK, as a proponent of university-community relations and as the present chair of the history department.”*

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