Mark Ensalaco is currently Director of the International Studies and Human Rights Studies programs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Dayton.  He joined the faculty of the University of Dayton in 1989. He received an M.T.S. in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 1984.  In 1988 he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to conduct doctoral research at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.  He was awarded a Ph.D. in Political Science from the State University of New York in 1991. He received advanced training in human rights at the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica in 1993 and 1994. His teaching and research concern human rights and political violence, with a regional emphasis on Latin America.  He has traveled extensively in Latin America, and has taught or conducted research in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Chile.  In 1990, he served as an international observer to the Nicaraguan elections.  In 1991, he was invited to be visiting professor at the School of Law at the Universidad de Concepción, in Chile, in order to teach, conduct research, and draft a set of recommendations aimed at re-instituting the social science program eliminated by the Pinochet dictatorship. He has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Armed Forces and Society, and the Human Rights Quarterly, and given numerous public and academic presentations on human rights, political violence, Latin American politics and US-Latin American Relations. His first book, Chile Under Pinochet:  Recovering the Truth, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in October, 1999.  He is currently researching and writing his second book, The Mark of Cain: The Prosecution of Pinochet and the Search for the Disappeared. Dr. Ensalaco is also the founding director of the Human Rights Committee at the University of Dayton and a founding member of the International Human Rights Education Consortium.