Robert Jay Glickman is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Although his specialty is Hispanic language, literature, and culture, Prof. Glickman has also researched and written on political, sociological, and military issues in the Americas and has done extensive research on knowledge acquisition, transfer, and utilization in multidisciplinary environments. He has taught at the University of California (Riverside), Harvard University, and the University of Toronto, and has lectured on a variety of historical and contemporary subjects at institutions of learning in the Americas and Europe. His current research is focused on pedagogical methodology and the diffusion of innovations within and across disciplines.