Ricardo DuchesneBorn in Puerto Rico, Ricardo Duchesne studied History at McGill University and later at Concordia University, under the supervision of George Rudé. In 1994 he received a doctorate in Social & Political Thought at York University. His Dissertation, Al Contraries Confounded: Historical Materialism and the Transition-to-Capitalism Debate, was awarded the Doctoral Prize Award for best dissertation of the year. In 1995, Duchesne was appointed assistant professor in the department of social science at the University of New Brunswick, where he remained until 2019. Read More Read Less