John R. Brazil

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John R. Brazil is the current president of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He received the A.B. in History in 1968 from Stanford University. He holds the Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Brazil was President of Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois). His professional honors include serving as a member of the U.S. Department of Education and American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ mission of American university presidents to the Soviet Union in 1989 and being a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Sydney in 1980. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society in business administration, and an honorary member of Gold Key and Delta Mu Delta national honor society in business administration. In 1997 Dr. Brazil was awarded an Honorary Doctor degree from the Samara State Aerospace University in Russia.

Brazil began his teaching career as a Teaching Fellow in English, History, and American Studies at Yale University in 1968. He moved to San Jose State University in 1973 and taught Humanities and American Studies, reaching the rank of Professor there. Dr. Brazil has published extensively in such scholarly journals as the American Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, American Literary Realism, and the Mississippi Quarterly and has made numerous presentations. He currently has two books in progress, Murder and Twenties America and The Twenties on Trial.

Dr. Brazil has been a Director of Caterpillar Inc. since 1998.

Dr. Brazil and his wife, Janice Hosking Brazil, have two children, a son, Adrian, and a daughter, Morgan.