Rate My Professor George Andrews

Andrews specializes in the history of Latin America, Afro-Latin America, and comparative race relations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics including Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Afro-Latin America, Brazil, Race in Latin America, State and Society in Latin America, Latin American Revolutions, Urban Latin America, and U.S.-Latin American Relations. Among his major publications are the books *Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000* (Harvard University Press, 2016), *Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay* (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), *Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000* (Oxford University Press, 2004), *Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988* (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), and *The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900* (University of Wisconsin Press, 1980). He co-edited *Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America 1870-1960* (Cambridge University Press, 2022) with Paulina Laura Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, and *Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction* (Cambridge University Press, 2018) with Alejandro de la Fuente. Andrews has received the 2025 Distinguished Service Award from the Conference on Latin American History, the Provost’s Excellence in Mentoring Award (2016), the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (1996), Fulbright Visiting Professor at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay (2014), the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard University (2012), Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), NEH Fellowship (1995), Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship (2001), and Arthur Whitaker Book Prizes (2005, 2011). His scholarship on Afrodescendants in the Southern Cone and broader Latin America has established Afro-Latin American history as a key interdisciplinary field.