Thomas W. Walker is professor of political science and director of Latin American Studies at Ohio University. He holds a B.A. in political science from Brown University and an M.A. (Latin American Studies) and Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of New Mexico. Walker is the author of The Christian Democratic Movement in Nicaragua and Nicaragua: The Land of Sandino; the coauthor, with John Booth, of Understanding Central America; and the editor/coauthor of Nicaragua in Revolution, Nicaragua: The First Five Years, and Reagan Versus the Sandinistas: The Undeclared War on Nicaragua. From 1983 to 1984 he served as founding cochair of the Latin American Studies Association's Task Force on Scholarly Relations with Nicaragua. He was a member of the LASA teams that observed the Nicaraguan elections in 1984 and 1990.