Professor Andrien received his B.A. in history from Trinity College (Hartford,
Connecticut) in 1973 with honors in history and general scholarship.
He later took his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) in history from Duke
University. Professor Andrien joined the History Department at Ohio
State in 1978, and in 2006 he was named Humanities Distinguished Professor.
Professor Andrien specializes in Colonial Latin American history, focusing
specifically on the Andean region from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
He has written Crisis and Decline: The Viceroyalty of Peru in the
Seventeenth Century (1985), The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830:
The State and Regional Development (1996), and his most recent book
is Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness
Under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825 (2001). He has co-edited (with
Rolena Adorno) Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in
the Sixteenth Century (1991) and (with Lyman L. Johnson) The
Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
(1994). He is also the editor of The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America (2002). In addition, he has published numerous articles in journals
such as Past and Present, Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, and Journal
of Latin American Studies.
Kenneth J. Andrien is currently working on a book-length research
project (in collaboration with Allan
J. Kuethe of Texas Tech University) which examines the intersection of ideas,
culture, and public policy in the eighteenth-century Spanish Empire.
The volume will trace the gradual evolution of a governing ideology
for the Spanish American Empire, exploring how this ideology shaped
colonial policy for the various regions of the American Empire.
Professor Andrien teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin
American history and World history. He currently serves as a member
of the editorial boards of Colonial Latin American Review, History Compass, and the Anuario de Estudios Americanos."
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