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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kenneth_Maxwell > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kenneth_Maxwell.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Maxwell > Source revision: 1354304573 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|British historian (born 1941)}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Use British English|date=March 2023}} '''Kenneth Robert Maxwell''' (born 3 February 1941) is a [British](/source/Great_Britain) historian of Iberia and Latin America, educated at Queen's College, Taunton, Somerset (1951-1960), [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Cambridge) University (1960-1963) where he studied under [Ronald Robinson](/source/Ronald_Robinson), Edward Miller, Professor Sir Harry Hinsley (The British Academy, https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk > memoirs > hinsl...) and Johanthan Steinberg, and at Princeton University where his doctoral adviser was Professor Stanley J. Stein. == Career == In 1963, Kenneth Maxwell studied at the University of Madrid and was a [Gulbenkian grantee](/source/Gulbenkian_Prize) in Lisbon in 1964. In September 1964 he entered the graduate program in Latin American History at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) where his supervisor was Professor [Stanley Stein](/source/Stanley_J._Stein). Maxwell was a Newberry library-Gulbenkian fellow in Chicago (1968-1969)(https://publications.newberry.org >...). He was appointed an assistant and later an associate professor of Luso-Brazilian history at the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas) in Lawrence. In 1971 and 1972 he was the Herodotus fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the [Institute for Advanced Study](/source/Institute_for_Advanced_Study) at Princeton. Between 1972 and 1975 he remained at the Institute in the school of historical studies, with the support of a [Rockefeller Foundation](/source/Rockefeller_Foundation) grant and in 1974-75 as a joint appointment in the school of historical studies and the newly established school of social sciences. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow from 1975-76 (https://www.gf.org > fellows > k...), and was then appointed an associate professor of history at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) (1976-1984), becoming the director of the Camões Center at Columbia University in 1988-1999. He was a senior fellow at the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University from 1978-1992 and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University from 1992-2000. He was the program director of the Tinker Foundation (1979-1983).[https://tinker.org] A long-time member of the [Council on Foreign Relations](/source/Council_on_Foreign_Relations) for fifteen years, Maxwell 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 (1996-2004) and 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](/source/Foreign_Affairs)''.{{Cite magazine |last=Sherman |first=Scott |title=Kissinger's Shadow over the Council on Foreign Relations |date=6 December 2004 |magazine=[The Nation](/source/The_Nation) |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/kissingers-shadow-over-council-foreign-relations/}} He endowed a Kenneth Maxwell thesis prize for the best senior thesis on Brazil at the David Rockafeller Center (https://rll.fas.harvard.edu > pages > kenneth - maxwell - the...) As well as a Kenneth Maxwell thesis prize for the best senior thesis on Brazil at Princeton University (https://plas.princeton.edu/certificate - programs/senior-thesis- prizes). As of 2004 Maxwell became a professor of History at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) and a senior fellow at Harvard University [David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies](/source/David_Rockefeller_Center_for_Latin_American_Studies), where he established and was the founding director the Brazil Studies Program (2004-2013). He was a weekly columnist for the ''Folha de São Paulo'' (2005-2015)(https://www.folha.uol.com.br) and ''O Globo'' (2015- )(https://oglobo.globo.com) and has written for the ''New York Review of Books'' (https://www.nybooks.com), and Defense.info (https://defense.info > book > ken...) and many other publications. He was a Visiting associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at [New York University](/source/New_York_University) (1978–79), a Visiting Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Princeton (1985–86) and a Visiting Professor of History at Yale (1991–92). He donated his collection of books on Brazil, Portugal and Latin America to the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge University. (https://www.jon.cam.uk > kenneth - maxwell - collection...) On June 5, 2024, The Federal University of Sergipe in Brazil awarded Professor Kenneth Maxwell a ''doutor honoris causa''{{cite web |title=Universidade Federal de Sergipe concederá título de Doutor Honoris Causa ao historiador Kenneth Maxwell |url=https://www.ufs.br/conteudo/74328-universidade-federal-de-sergipe-concedera-titulo-de-doutor-honoris-causa-ao-historiador-kenneth-maxwell |website=Universidade Federal de Sergipe |access-date=15 November 2024}} ==Selected bibliography== * Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808 (Cambridge University Press,1973) * Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808 (Routledge, 2004) * A Devassa da Devassa, A Inconfidência Mineira: Brasil e Portugal 1750-1808 (Paz e Terra, 1977) * Spanish Constitution (ed) Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University (1998) * A Devassa da Devassa (7a edição ampliada e ilustrada, Paz e Terra, 2010) * The Press and the Rebirth of Iberian Democracy (ed) (Greenwood Press,1983) * Portugal: Ten Years after the Revolution (ed) (Research Institute on International Change) (1984) * Spain's Prospects, (ed) The Spanish Institute, New York (1985) * Soviet dilemmas in Latin America: Pragmatism or Ideology (with Susan Clark) (1989) * Portugal: Ancient Country, New Democracy (ed) Wilson Center Press, Washington D.C (1989) * Portugal in the 1980s (ed) (Greenwood Press, 1988) * Spanish Foreign and Defense Policy (ed) (Westview, 1991) * Portuguese Defense and Foreign Policy (ed) Camões Center, Columbia University, (1991) * Portugal: The Constitution and the consolidation of Democracy (Camões Center, 1991) * The New Spain: From Isolation to Influence (Council on Foreign Relations,1994) * Political Democracy in Portugal on its 20th anniversary (Council on Foreign Relations,1994) * The Making of Portuguese Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1995) * A construção da Democracia em Portugal (Presença, 1997) * Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press,1995) * Marquês de Pombal: Paradoxo do Iluminismo (Paz e Terra, 1996) * Task Force Report, A letter to the President on Brazil policy (New York, 2001) * O Império Derrotada, Revolução e Democracia em Portugal (Companhia das Letras, 2006) * O Marquês de Pombal: Ascensão e Queda, (Manuscrito, 2015) * Chocolate, Piratas e Outros Malandros, Ensaios Tropicais, (Paz e Terra, 1999) * O Marquês de Pombal (Presença, 2001) * Mais Malandros, Ensaios Tropicais e Outros (Paz e Terra, 2002) * Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (Rutledge, 2003) * Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.,(Report on Activities, 2006/2007) * O Livro de Tiradentes (coordinator)(Penguin/Companhia das Letras, 2013) * An Historian of the 18th Century Looks at the Contemporary World (ed) Robbin Laird (2023) * Brazil in a Changing World Order: Essays by Kenneth Maxwell (ed) Robbin Laird (2024) * Perspectives on Portuguese History: The 2024 Lectures of Professor Kenneth Maxwell (2025) * The Tale of Three Cities: The Rebuilding of London, Paris and Lisbon (2025) * 18th Century Globalization: The American Revolutionary Ideal Comes to Brazil (2026) * Globalização do século XVIII: A Conspiração de Minas e o Atlantico Revolucionario (2026) * 18e siecle Mondialisation: Le Point de transit intellectuel francais (2026) Honours== *Grande Cruz, Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico, Brazil, 1996 *Commander, Ordem do Rio Branco, Brazil, 1997 *Grande Oficial, Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, Portugal, 2003 *John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1985–86 *Luso-American Foundation Fellow, 1986–87 *Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, 1989-2004 *Honorary Fellow, Institute of Romance Studies, [University of London](/source/University_of_London) (1993-) *Sócio Correspondente Estrangeiro, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (1994-) *Doutor Honoris Causa, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil (2024). ==Board member== *LASPAU (1996-1997) *American Portuguese Society, (1979-1997) *Tinker Foundation (2002-2008) *Americas Watch/Americas (Advisory Board) (1996- *Luso-American Foundation, Advisory Council (1996-2000) *Spanish Institute (1997-2004) *David Rockefeller Center, Harvard University, Advisory Committee (2010) ==Consultancies== *Ford Foundation, Brazil Office, (1985–87) *Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. (1989-1990) *Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C. (1986-1992) *Hewlett Foundation. Mexico Program Review (1992) *Tinker Foundation (review of Tinker Chairs (1985-1987) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071225215436/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/about/contact/maxwell Maxwell's website at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University] *[https://www.krmaxwell.com Maxwell's website] * Maxwell, Kenneth, Dicionario de Historiadores Portugueses [https://dicp.bnportugal.gov.pt > imagens > maxw... (PDF) * Kenneth Maxwell at DRCLAS | ReVista-Harvard University (https:/revista.drclas.harvard.edu > kenneth-maxwell-at-…)(https://declas.harvard.edu). {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maxwell, Kenneth}} Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American historians Category:21st-century American male writers Category:Historians of the United States Category:Operation Condor Category:Harvard University staff Category:Historians of Brazil Category:Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kenneth Maxwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Maxwell) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Maxwell?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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