Jean Carlos Cowan
Dr. Jean Carlos Cowan, Associate Professor, has been teaching at Orange County Community College for nine years. He was first a member of the English Department but then recently moved to the Global Studies Department. He has always considered teaching his true calling and vocation as well as a social commitment to the students and to the community. He considers student center approach the most productive and valuable. He teaches all levels of Spanish language and Literature and Latin American History. Dr. Cowan was awarded a dual PhD from the SUNY Albany in Spanish Literature and Latin American History and Politics from LACS (Latino American and Caribbean Studies Department) in 2006. His dissertation “Internal Displacement to the City of Medellin a Global and Transnational Approach” was an original research project that has recently been considered for publication by the Center of Immigration Studies at the University of California. In addition, He has done other research work: “The refugee crisis of Colombian’s in Ecuador and Panama” and also research about Latino Migration to the United States. Currently he is working on a book of poetry, “In Exile”, a recompilation of political and love poems from the last 12 years.
Dr. Cowan has also given many lectures at colleges and universities in last 15 years. Some of the most important are the following: Bard College 2006 Lecture, “An Analytical Discussion of State-less People in Europe and the Refugee crisis in the Americas”; Harvard 2005, the Rockefeller Center of Latino American Studies; El Museo del Barrio 2005 reading “the History of political Murals in Mexico City”; The University of Connecticut, Stanford campus 2002-2008. He also developed for UCONN Stanford a course in history, politics, migration in Latin America. Finally, He is working to present a new history course for the Global Studies Department related to conflict resolution and the refugee crisis in Africa and Latin America and he is creating a new student-exchange program between SUNY Orange and The University of Puerto Rico.
Sarah Wells, Room 107
845-341-4706
jean.cowan@sunyorange.edu