New Leader for Border Institute

U-T San Diego -- Everard “Ev” Meade, a history professor from UC San Diego, has taken over as director of the Trans-Border Institute at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.

He replaces David Shirk, who resigned last year.

Meade is a published scholar with extensive experience teaching courses on the history of Mexico, U.S. relations with Latin America and human rights. He was co-founder of the Eleanor Roosevelt College Human Rights Minor Program at the University of California San Diego.

He received his doctorate at the University of Chicago. (Full Story)