Erick Langer is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He teaches courses in Latin American Civilization, Resistance and Rebellion in the Andean World, Indians and the State in Modern Latin America, Latin American Origins and Transformations and Economic History of Latin America.

He is also the Editor in Chief, Gale World Studies: Latin America and the U.S. History Representative, Pan American Institute of Geography and History.