Dr. Andrew Kirkendall

Biography

Professor Andrew Kirkendall specializes in Latin American history, particularly focusing on U.S. and world history. He has authored several scholarly monographs including 'Class Mates: Male Student Culture Making Political Class Nineteenth-Century Brazil,' published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2002, and 'Paulo Freire: Cold War Politics and Literacy' and 'Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats in Cold War Latin America,' both published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010 and 2022, respectively. Kirkendall has a profound interest in education's role in political and social contexts, particularly in Latin America and Brazil. He has been teaching Latin American world history at Texas A&M University since 1997 and was awarded the college-level distinguished achievement award in teaching by the Association of Students at Texas A&M University in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1996.

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