Peter Winn (born 1942) is a professor

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specializing in

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. He has written several books, including ''Americas'', which he developed while serving as academic director for the 1993

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series of the same name. Winn earned a BA from Columbia College in 1962 and a PhD from

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in 1972.Faculty page
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during the 1970s, instructing

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, who later became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, in four of his classes and serving as her senior thesis advisor.Antonia Felix, ''Sonia Sotomayor. The True American Dream'' (Berkeley Books, New York 2010), p. 44.

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