Jean Carlos Cowan
Dr. Jean Carlos Cowan, Associate Professor, has been teaching at Orange County Community College since the year 2000. He was first a member of the English Department but in 2007 moved to the New 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, Latin American History and Migration. 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 Colombians in Ecuador and Panama” and also research about Latino Migration to the United States. He also writes political and romantic poetry in Spanish and Portuguese.
Dr. Cowan has given many lectures at colleges and universities in Latin America and the United States. 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”; Latino Migration summer program at The University of Connecticut, Stanford campus from 2002-2010. In 2009 he developed a course migration from Latin America to the US, for SUNY Orange.
Jean Carlos Cowan, Ph.DAssociate Professor, Global Studies
SUNY Orange
Sarah Wells Building Room 107 / Kaplan 320C
845-341-4706