Carlos Eire

professor

Carlos Eire was born in Havana, Cuba. He left his homeland in 1962, one of fourteen thousand unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan. After living in a series of foster homes in Florida and Illinois, he was reunited with his mother in Chicago. His father, who died in 1976, never left Cuba. After earning his Ph.D. at Yale University, Carlos Eire taught at St. John's University in Minnesota for two years and at the University of Virginia for fifteen. He is now the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University.