Juan has taught at Colorado College since 1989.  He was born in Mexico City, where he lived until age eighteen. He received a B.A. from New College in 1977, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University in 1980, and an M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) in Political Science from Harvard University. He teaches courses in Latin American Politics, Inter-American Relations, and Comparative Politics.

          He is the author of La elite gobernante mexicana (Mexico: D. F. Joaquin Mortiz, 1993); and co-editor with Timothy Cheek of Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).  In addition, with Curtis Cook, he edited Aboriginal Right and Self-Government: The Canadian Experience in North American Perspective (Montreal: McGill-Queens Press, 2000) He has written essays for journals such as the Political Science Quarterly, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Foro Internacional,  and International Political Science Review, and for a number of collected editions. 

Courses:

PS 335 Latin America I
PS 342 Inter-American Relations
PS 336 Latin America II
PS 412 Tutorial in Comparative Politics