Research Interests

• Latin America
  • Conquest and Early Settlement
  • Andean Region
  • Cuba
• History of the Christian Church

Current Projects

• Apostle to the Indians: The Life of Bartolomé de las Casas for Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Bartolomé de las Casas in Documents for Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• The Air War over the Bay of Pigs, April, 1961.

Courses Taught

• The Spanish Frontier in North America (HY 429/529)
• History of the Christian Church to 1500 (HY 235)
• History of the Christian Church Since 1500 (HY 236)
• Age of Exploration and Conquest (HY 471/571)
• History of Religion in Latin America (HY 476/576)
• The Iberian Atlantic World (HY 670)

Awards and Honors

• Pew Evangelical Scholars Program Fellowship, 1999-2000.
• Fulbright Senior Research/Lecturing Award, University of Lima, Aug.-Dec., 1988.
• Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award, University of Costa Rica, Aug.-Dec., 1983.
• Choice, Outstanding Academic Book, 1995, The De Soto Chronicles.

• Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2011.
• W. R. Grace & Co., los aʼnos formativos, 1850-1930. Lima, Peru: Thalassa, 2008.
• History of Modern Latin America. Co-authored with Michael L. Conniff. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt, Brace, 1999. 2nd edition, 2004 by Thomson, Wadsworth.
• Los EE.UU. y el Perú: 1800-1995. Lima, Peru: Centro Peruano de Estudios Internaciones y Xerox del Peru, 1998. 2nd edition, June 2002.
• Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1999.