Kenneth Maxwell
American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Robert Maxwell is a British historian of Iberia and Latin America, educated at St John’s College, Cambridge University, where he studied under Professor Sir Harry Hinsley and Ronald Robinson and Edward Miller . In 1963 he studied at the University of Madrid and was a Gulbenkian grantee in Lisbon in 1964. In September 1964 he entered the graduate program in Latin American History at Princeton University where his supervisor was Professor Stanley Stein . He was a Newberry library-Gulbenkian fellow in Chicago . He was appointed an assistant and later an associate professor of Luso-Brazilian history at the University of Kansas in Lawrence . From 1971 until 1972 he was the Herodotus fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Between 1972 until 1975 he remained at the Institute with the support of a Rockefeller Foundation grant in the school of historical studies and between 1974-75 as a joint appointment in the school of historical studies and the newly established school of social sciences. He was appointed an associate professor of history at Columbia university and was the director of the Camões Center at Columbia University from 1988-1999. He was a senior fellow at the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia from 1978-1992 and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia from 1992-2000. He was the program director of the Tinker Foundation . A long time member of the Council on Foreign Relations for fifteen years he headed its Latin America Studies Program and was the director of studies and vice-president in 1996. He was the first Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Inter-American Affairs . He was the Western Hemisphere book reviewer for Foreign Affairs from 1995 until 2004. His 13 May 2004 resignation from the council and Foreign Affairs involved a major controversy over whether there had been a breach of the so-called "church-state separation" between the council itself and its magazine Foreign Affairs. .
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