Carlos Alberto Torres (sociologist)

Carlos Alberto Torres, born on 1 October 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an Argentine distinguished professor of social science and comparative education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He is known for his work in the political sociology of education and Latin American studies, and for biographical work on Paulo Freire. He is the founding director of the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA, established in 1991, and directed the UCLA Latin American Center from 1995 to 2005. He was president of the Comparative International Education Society from 1994 to 1998 and president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociology of Education from 1998 to 2006. He earned a B.A. at Universidad del Salvador in Argentina, an M.A. in political science at FLACSO in Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in international development education at Stanford University.