Joseph Preston Baratta

Background

Joseph Preston Baratta was born on June 24, 1943 in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. Son of Joseph John and Beatrice Wood (Preston) Baratta.

Education

Baratta received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in 1969, and a M.A. in History in 1977 and a M.A.T. from Boston University. He also received a Ph.D. degree in International Diplomatic History from Boston University in 1982.

Career

Joseph worked as an assistant professor at Boston University in 1982-1983. From 1985 till 1988 he was United Nations representative at World Association for World Federation, New York City. From 1988 till 1994 he had been a director at the Society for Study of Internationalism, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1989-1990 he was a researcher at the Center for United Nations Reform Education, Washington. Since 1994 he had been a co-director at the Center for Global Community and World Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1994-1995 he was an instructor in international organization at Boston College. Since 1994 he was a founding member and chair of executive committee at the Coalition for a Strong United Nations.

Achievements

• In 1989 Joseph received a grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace. He also received an Albert Beveridge grant from American History Association in 1984.
  
  

Works

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• book

  • The Politics of World Federation [2 volumes]
  • United Nations System (International Organizations Series)
  • Strengthening the United Nations: A Bibliography on U.N. Reform and World Federalism (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History)

Membership

Joseph was a seminar leader of World Federalist Association, Cambridge in 1989. In 1962-1965 he served at United States Marine Corps. He has also been a member of the American History Association, Organisation of America Historians, Society Historians of America Foreign Rels., Council on Peace Research in History.

• United States Marine Corps

  1962 - 1965

Interests

• hiking, bicycling, city government, the peace movement

Connections

Joseph married Married Gay Diane Singer on June 16, 1968, but they divorced in 1974. Then he married Virginia Mary Swain on January 1, 1995.

Father:

Joseph John Baratta

Mother:

Beatrice Wood (Preston) Baratta

Spouse (1):

Gay Diane Singer

Spouse (2):

Virginia Mary Swain