Peter Winn (born 1942)^[1] is a professoremeritus ofhistory atTufts University specializing inLatin American history. He has written several books, includingAmericas, which he developed while serving as academic director for the 1993PBS series of the same name.

Winn earned a BA fromColumbia College in 1962 and a PhD fromSt John's College, Cambridge in 1972.^[2]

Prof. Peter Winn taught atPrinceton University during the 1970s, instructingSonia Sotomayor, who later became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, in four of his classes and serving as her senior thesis advisor.^[3]

• Winn, Peter (1986),Weavers of Revolution: the Yarur workers and Chile's Road to Socialism, Oxford: Oxford University Press,ISBN 978-0-19-503960-3.
• Winn, Peter (1992),Americas: The changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean, New York: Pantheon,ISBN 978-0-679-41169-7.
• Winn, Peter (2004),Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1972-2002, Durham: Duke University Press,ISBN 978-0-8223-3309-8.

• Faculty page atTufts University
• Profile from the Tufts Observer

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