Julio Pino

Julio Pino is an Associate Professor of History at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Pino specializes in Latin American history and the Third World and in 1997 published the academic work, Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro.
Also at his time at Kent State, Pino has courted controversy for his anti-American and anti-Israel views. In 2009, the U.S. Secret Service acknowledged it was investigating Pino, possibly for his ties to a jihadist website.
Biography
Pino is a native of Cuba and convert to Islam.
Before teaching at Kent State, he received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles. He also is former Fulbright Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Courses he has taught include "Comparative Third World Revolutions, "Afro-Latin America, History of Women in Latin America" and "The Sixties: A Third World View." In 1997 he published Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro, "dealing with household organization and the feminization of poverty in the Rio de Janeiro' shantytowns."
Also at his time at Kent State, Pino has generated controversy for his strong anti-American and anti-Israel views.
Anti-American views
In 2007, Pino acknowledged to Kent State that he had been participating in a jihadist website but had since stopped. According to the website, which has since been removed, it provided "battle dispatches, training materials and jihad videos to our brothers worldwide."
Anti-Israel views
In 2002, Pino wrote a column in a Kent State student paper eulogizing an 18-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber.
In response to the incident, Kent State President Lester Lefton called Pino's actions deplorable: "We value critical thinking at this university and encourage students to engage with ideas that they find difficult or make them uncomfortable... Calling for the destruction of the state from which our guest comes (as do some of our students, faculty and community members) is a grotesque failure to model these values." Despite the censure, Lefton chose not to take punitive action against Pino.<ref name="plaindealer"/>
Publications
* Pino, Julio (1997). Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313303623.

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