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J.D., (Titulo de Abogado), Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá
M.A., University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Professor Uribe-Uran holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of History and Law. The recipient of numerous awards for both teaching and scholarship, including a State University System Teaching Incentive Program Award and a Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Research, Professor Uribe specializes in Latin American history and law. After earning his law degree at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, he served as a lawyer and then director for the Project of Legal Aid and Legal Research, Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular, Bogotá.

He also has held faculty appointments at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Seccional Medellín, and as a visiting professor of law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. He has received fellowships and research awards from, among others, the Fulbright Program, the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and has served on the board of editors of journals like the Law and History Review. A prominent and widely-published scholar, Professor Uribe-Uran is the author of eight books or book chapters and more than 40 articles and book reviews. In 1997, he received the prestigious Tibesar Prize from the Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association, for best article published in The Americas. Professor Uribe-Uran is a key figure in the establishment of the College of Law at FIU; his extensive service includes membership on the search and screen committees that recruited the founding faculty and many of the top administrators.

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