Dr. Rene A. De La Pedraja

title: PROFESSOR/HISTORY
department: History
phone: 2757
Email : delapedr@canisius.edu

The University of Chicago, Ph.D. in History, 1977

The University of Chicago, M.A. in History, 1974

The University of Houston, B.A. in Political Science, 1973

Canisius College, Buffalo, New York

Professor, Department of History 1997- present

Associate Professor, Department of History 1992-1997

Assistant Professor, Department of History 1989-1992

Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

Research Professor, School of Economics 1976-1985

Oil and Coffee: The Merchant Shipping of Latin America (forthcoming)
A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry: Since the Introduction of Steam. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. xviii and 754 pages.
Petroleo, electricidad, carbon y politica en Colombia. Bogota: El Ancora Editores, 393 pages.
Spanish translation of Energy Politics in Colombia with new materials added.
The Rise and Decline of U.S. Merchant Shipping in the Twentieth Century. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. xix and 345 pages.
Energy Politics in Colombia. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1989. xii and 236 pages. Spanish translation published in 1993.
Fedemetal y la industrializacion de Colombia. Bogota: Op Graficas, 1986. 318 pages.
Covers the rise of metal industries in Colombia, including steel mills , shipyards, automobile assembly plants, as well as the relations between government and private industry
Historia de la energia en Colombia, 1537-1930. Bogota: El Ancora Editores, 1985. 231 pages.
Covers electricity, coal, petroleum, and firewood; analyzes the activities of U.S. energy firms in Colombia. Energy Politics in Colombia (1989) continued the analysis for the period after 1930.