A native of Mesa, Arizona, Dr. Eduardo Pagán received his BA from Arizona State University, an M.A. from the University of Arizona, another MA from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. While at Princeton, he was an exchange scholar at Yale University. He has served as an acting assistant dean of students at Princeton University, a faculty member at Williams College, a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and department chair of Language, Cultures, and History at Arizona State University.